Abbeystead - Village Traditional Geocache
Team-SK: We have decided to put the rest of our Abbeystead series to bed. It was great whilst it lasted, a lovely area. We'll miss having the caches here. We will come and retrieve them as soon as possible.
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This cache is part of a series set around Abbeystead. The whole series takes about 2 and a half hours. This is a magnetic nano cache, near the centre of the village, some stealth required, as slightly overlooked.
This cache is located on a steep road. Please walk carefully along here, especially with children. This cache is NOT safe as a drive by, there is no where safe to park on the bend.
There are a number of notable buildings in the Abbeystead area: Cawthorne's Endowed School, rebuilt in the 19th century; Holme Farm opposite, also 19th century; and the new village hall.
On the Abbeystead Estate, the Duke felt it was important to support the local community with a proper facility suitable for events and meetings and so personally financed the building of a new village hall. The building has been designed to be environmentally sustainable with good insulation and use of local construction materials. It is heated by a combination of a Ground Source Heat Pump system and Photovoltaic (solar) cells. Its central location also means it is an ideal site for the estate's recycling facilities.
On 23 May 1984, 44 people were attending a presentation at a valve house at the outfall end of the Lune/Wyre Transfer Scheme in Abbeystead intended to explain the effects of the scheme on winter flooding in the lower Wyre Valley. During the presentation, water was pumped over the weir designed to regulate the flow of water into the River Wyre. When the pumping commenced, however, there was a bright flash followed by an explosion that killed 16 visitors, injured 22 more and severely damaged the valve house. There is a memorial plaque near to the Weir'd n Wonderful cache.
Congratulations to 'campdave' for getting their first FTFs!
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