Granchester Meadows Traditional Cache
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Paul
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Granchester Meadows are a series of water meadows that form part of the lovely rural idyll adjacent to the river Cam (or Granta) near the village of Granchester, Cambridge, UK. This has recently been upgraded from a micro cache in a film canister (which became damaged) to a small cache in a tupperware container, which hopefully will prove to be more durable. There is free parking at the Cambridge end of the meadows & in Granchester.
“In the lazy water meadow
I lay me down.
All around me golden sunflakes
Settle on the ground.
Basking in the sunshine
Of a bygone afternoon
Bringing sounds of yesterday
Into this city room…”
…So says the chorus of the 1969 song written and performed by Cambridge local lads Pink Floyd. We can’t guarantee that there will be ‘golden sunflakes’ settling on the ground when you visit but we can guarantee that you will enjoy walking the footpath that runs through the meadows from Cambridge, adjacent to the river Cam. Whilst here you might like to visit the picturesque village of Grantchester listed in the Domesday Book (1086) as Grantesete and Grauntsethe. Students and tourists often take the ‘Grantchester Grind’ (as the footpath is nicknamed) or travel from Cambridge by punt to picnic in the meadows or take tea at ‘The Orchard’. In 1897, a group of Cambridge students persuaded the owner of Orchard House to serve them tea in its apple orchard, a tradition that survives to this day. This was the one–time home and ‘playground’ of Edwardian poet Rupert Brooke and his remarkable group of friends that included, E.M Forster, Virginia Woolf, Bertrand Russel and others.
Enjoy the cache!
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