Somerleyton Memorial Circular Walk 4 Traditional Cache
Hidden : 7/20/2010
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

Summerhouse Water.
This cache is the fourth along a circular walk of approximately two and a half miles, starting and ending near Somerleyton Church. Parking is available next to the church car park. The footpath is a few yards to the left as you leave the car park on the right hand side of the road.

The Victorian garden at Somerleyton replaced an early-17th-century one by Sir John Wentworth that was regarded as ‘one of the 3 greatest gardens in the country’, its precocious coniferous plantations inspired wonder: ‘for here Summer is to be seen in the depth of Winter in the pleasant walks, beset on both sides with fir-trees green all the year long’. Wentworth also had elaborate water gardens, of which the lake called Summerhouse Water is a relict. This lake, like several other linear lakes in the area probably originated as a medieval turbary or peat-digging for fuel, as at Fritton, where there was a thriving peat-digging industry in the 14th century, resulting in the formation of Fritton Decoy. As this last name indicates, several of the lakes were further developed, from the 17th century, for use as duck decoys. This straight forward cache is located next to the footpath in an area just beyond the Summerhouse Water. Don't expect to see too much water! Follow the footpath across the field. This will then lead you back to the main road, several yards to the right of the church

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