Heart of Hounslow West 1 Traditional Cache
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Green Magnetic Nano-Cache. Beware of muggles and the nice new flats overlooking the area!
A short walk due south of here lies the remains of part of the extensive Forest of Middlesex, now largely buried beneath the runways of London Airport. Hounslow Heath and the area you are now walking through was for more than 200 years the most dangerous place in Britain! Between the 17th and early 19th centuries, the Heath occupied perhaps 25 square miles. No one was really certain where its boundaries lay, and no one cared, for it was a tract of country to be crossed as quickly as possible. Though Hounslow itself was not large, it was after London the most important of coaching centres. Across the Heath ran the Bath Road and the Exeter Road, along which travelled wealthy visitors to West Country resorts and courtiers travelling to Windsor. All provided rich pickings for highwaymen lurking in copses bordering the lonely ways.
Dick Turpin himself is credited with having stayed in most old pubs in the Hounslow area, but in fact he mostly confined his activities to Essex, North London and Yorkshire.
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