Incy Wincy ... Multi-Cache
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This is a multi cache in the village of Longwick.
The co-ordinates will take you to a great place to park and to the start of this multi cache.
The final cache is not too far away and will take you around 15 minutes to walk to.
A little history….
Cattle drovers used Longwick to take their herds through from the Welsh Borders and Herefordshire to London, stopping to water their animals at the spring near the Lower Icknield Way crossroads. Nowadays the spring is protected within a resident’s garden.
Cattle were also driven through Longwick to Thame Market. The present Thame Road was established in 1821 but the old road had grown up between two streams which were either side of the road where herdsmen stopped to water their animals.
Q1. When was the Village Hall built? 19A0
(It is the date above the door near the roof)
Q2. In the playground area, opposite the scout hut, find out when 2 people were born.
Lottie Campbell Purver born 19BC and Maurice White born 19DE
Near the scout hut you can see one of the 2 streams that are mentioned in ‘History of Longwick’ above.
Leave this area and walk down to the main road. Opposite you is the Longwick Post Office. Turn left and walk down through the village.
You will pass Centenary Cottages on your right, and then shortly after the entrance to Walkers Road. This area which had been the Walker’s Saw Mill became a housing development in the late 1970’s.
Hardwoods such as Oak, Elm and Ash were collected from estates all over the Vale of Aylesbury by the timber fellers and taken to the steam-powered processing plant at this site.
The Walker Family moved to Longwick in 1795 and created the Saw Mill. At one point it was one of the largest Saw Mills in Southern England, employing about 40 local people. The Walker family also built a number of cottages in Longwick, to house their employees. The cottages are named Fir, Oak and Ash.
Continue walking on Thame road and go past the farm with the well known white goose on the telegraph pole outside.
A little further on you will come to ‘Royston’ A house believed to have been owned or built by the Rothschild Family.
Q3. What time is it? FG:00
(aarrrggh the clock used to be stuck at 12:00 ! and is now being mended! So the answer to this is 12:00 .!
On the opposite side of the road is one of the old the Old Saw Mill cottages
Q4. When was Fir Cottages built? 192H
You should now have all the pieces of information to be able to solve this multi cache.
N 51.44.(A – D) F B
W 000.C1.E (G + H) (C + D)
Continue down Thame road and on the right hand side of the road is a footpath. Take the footpath past the house, over the stile and through the first field until you get to a little stream. There is a bridge with a hand rail to help you get over the stream safely.
This is the second stream that runs through Longwick, mentioned in the above description.
Over the next stile and your cache is not far away.
(If you are scared of spiders approach with caution!)
Congratulations to 'The Family Gray' for being the first to find.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Haqre jngre
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