Gettin Cooler Traditional Cache
TobyTop: No longer able to maintain.
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This cache is located on what has been designed as a wheelchair friendly walk around a lovely garden area. There is an up hill walk in either direction. Although there is wheel chair access to within several feet of the caches, the caches themselves may not be wheelchair accessable. The caches is a small clip box container.
Court Yard Walk
This is one of two caches hidden on this lovely little walk which has been designed by the National Trust to be Wheel Chair friendly. The caches are designed to take you to features within this little garden area , which is a lovely stroll and could be a cache and dash if you are in a hurry.
However there is so much to see of this lovely estate you could make it a days outing as well!
This cache is a small clip top container hidden on the path leading up to the Ice House which would have served the great house. Most large house of the day had Ice Houses that were designed to provide ice to the gentry throughout the year. This particular one is believe to be unique in that its roof was made of a slightly different construction than normal. It has been restored by the National Trust and all this information is given on the interpretation board at the site.
This circular walk has lots of little paths criss-crossing through it with a variety of lovely trees and features that originate from when this was a thriving estate and the lovely mansion house was still standing. .
The earliest known owner of Stackpole was Elidyr de Stackpole mentioned by Gerald of Wales in 1188. The estate has changed owners several times since this period. In 1611 the estate was sold for the princely sum of £2000 to the Lort Family who had been leasing it since 1578. The estate then passed to the Cawdor Family by marriage in 1714 and was in fact held by the family by unbroken male descent until the estate was sold by Hugh, 6th Earl and 25th Thane of Cawdor in 1976. The house itself underwent several changes over the years from an old fashioned Fortified House to a Palladian style house that was flanked by a sloping walled garden, overlooking what is now the lake but then was a water meadow fed by the Treforce stream. The lakes and what is now known as Bosherston Lily Ponds are all man made feature created by building a dam – the Green Causeway, also known as Grassy Bridge – to stop the outflow of three streams feeding the water meadows in the valley bottom running beneath and south of Stackpole Court. The water level was regulated by a series of bridges and causeways, such as Eight Arch Bridge built in 1797-99 which was constructed with small dams and sluices beneath the arches. The extensive landscaping of the area around the great house and the ponds was carried out by various members of the Campbell Family.
This cache is placed with the kind permission of the National Trust who manage the whole area of Stackpole Estate.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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