Asseyez-vous or should it be tu? (Spa Walk 4) Traditional Cache
The Lambs @ 9: Time to go for this one.
Asseyez-vous or should it be tu? (Spa Walk 4)
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You might say that yet again this is another unusual cache in the Croft On Tees Spa Walk Series by The Lambs @ 9. We just like to think of ourselves as eccentric and leave it at that!!
Part of the Croft On Tees Spa Walk Series (Cache No: 4)
It has been placed in order to complete a circular walk around the old footpaths of the Old and New Spa in Croft On Tees. These paths are now long forgotten and rarely used. Please help reuse them.
Unusually for The Lambs @ 9 there isn’t really anything of interest or any site history or to go with this cache so we have popped something in about the is history of Croft instead. Hope you enjoy reading it !
Croft was formerly the manor and residence of the ancient family of Clervaux, a knight who followed William I from France to fight at the Battle of Hastings.
He was originally granted lands at Bootham but moved to Croft shortly afterwards.
Sir Richard Clervaux who can claim Kingship with Edward IV and Richard III is buried in the south aisle of St Peters (Croft Church).
The Clervaux family survived until of Henry VIII time when Richard Clervaux died without issue his sister Elizabeth became his sole heir. She married Christopher Chaytor, Esq. of Butterby, Durham in the reign of Elizabeth I.
This lineage died out in the mid 15th Century but shortly afterward the estate was inherited by William Chaytor, of Butterby, whose grandfather, Thomas Chaytor, was the fourth son of Elizabeth.
Croft Hall, their former residence, was vacated when Clervaux Castle (built By Ignatius Bonomi 1787-1870) was erected in the 1830's by Sir William Chaytor. This house with six towers was demolished in 1950 and was situated near Sweet Well Wood.
Car parking right next to the cache site
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