A step back in time #1 Traditional Cache
The Bee Keeper: As the owner has not responded to my previous log requesting that they check this cache I am archiving it.
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***This series follows the route of 'Watling Street', a road built by the Romans which went from Dover on the southeast coast of England to Wroxeter in Shropshire via London and will pass historical points of interest en-route***
The cache is a small magnetic cylindrical container containing a log book, pencil, stickers, go-go's and marbles when laid. (will hold small TB/geocoins)
This series starts at the Water Tower on Shooters Hill, which is the second highest point 129 meters (423ft) in London after Hampstead Heath. This distinctive Victorian Gothic water tower is a landmark that can be seen from miles around and offering good views over the River Thames to the north, with central London clearly visible to the east.
Landmarks nearby include:
- The Bull public house which opened in 1749, used as a refreshment stop by the Royal Mail coaches.
- Severndroog Castle on Shooters Hill, a 60-foot high triangular, brick-built tower designed in the gothic style by architect Richard Jupp. Severndroog is a nationally-listed Grade II* building presently on English Heritage’s Buildings at Risk register. It was built in 1784 as a memorial to Sir William James by his wife, Lady James to celebrate his most famous exploit in 1755 when he destroyed the fleet and stronghold of pirates on an island fortress off the west coast of India.
- Oxleas Wood - one of the few remaining areas of ancient deciduous forest, dating back over 8,000 years. It is part of a larger area on the south side of Shooter's Hill: other parts are Castle Wood (named after Severndroog Castle), Jack Wood, Shepherdleas Wood, Oxleas Meadows, Falconwood Field and Eltham Park North (the latter being divided by the A2 main road from its southern section). It is a Local Nature Reserve and a Site of Special Scientific Interest, covering 72 hectares with oak, silver birch, hornbeam, coppice hazel, and a great number of fine samples of the Wild Service Tree. Oxleas Wood remains a public open space with a café close to the top of the hill.
Shooters Hill reputedly takes its name from the practice of archery here during the Middle Ages, although the name is also commonly linked to its reputation as a haunt for highwaymen!
Charles Dickens mentions such carriages "lumbering" up Shooter's Hill in A Tale of Two Cities, and refers to a public house there in Pickwick Papers. The district is also mentioned in Bram Stoker 's Dracula and in H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds. On 11 April 1661 diarist Samuel Pepys mentions passing under "the man that hangs upon Shooter's Hill" which may have been a highwayman.
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