Rimington #1 - A Tricky Quickie Traditional Cache
Rimington #1 - A Tricky Quickie
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35mm Microcache located close to a popular dog walking area and caravan site so beware of muggles. This can either be a quick drive by with parking, or part of the many walks around this beautiful area not too far from Gisburn.
Please replace the cache as best you can, it's a tight enough fit. You will need a pen or pencil as the cache only contains a log.
It's quite well hidden so please try and replace as found if possible.
Rimington
More correctly Rimington and Middop is a village of many parts spread over quite a large area and includes the small hamlets of Newby, Middop, Martin Top and Howgill.
The village encompasses many isolated farms and small clusters of houses. Martin Top Congregational Chapel forms one of the focal point of the village and the building has a fine sundial. There was a Wesleyan Methodist Chapel sited at Stopper Lane which closed sometime in the 1960s.
The village has a long history and in the past had a lead mine. Now the village is exclusively rural and its surroundings have been formed by the many generations of livestock farms to produce the rich texture of fields lanes and small woods.
Home for many years to composer Francis Duckworth, whose hymn tune "Rimington" is still regularly heard at Martin Top Chapel and sung to the hymn ’Jesus shall reign’. Francis was buried in Gisburn on the north east side of the churchyard. His memorial is of grey granite and has the tune inscribed on it. Many archaeological finds have been made in this area and near Stopper Lane is the disused lead mine, reputed to have produced the silver for "Pudsey's Mint," which attracted interest recently when exploration work was again carried out. The Black Bull Inn is home to a model transport museum and next door, Cosgrove's House of Colour attracts fashion-conscious men and women from a wide area.
At one time it was said that, in the village of Rimington, there was a considerably rich vein of lead ore which yielded quite a quantity of silver. Some years ago, a person was convicted and executed at York for counterfeiting the silver coin of the realm in metal procured from lead in Rimington.
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