Swan Lake Traditional Cache
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This cache is on a public footpath. Decent footwear is a must especially if it's been raining. Dogs are permitted on leads. It's a test tube type cache. Logbook and pencil are inside. There is a car parking available. Take a sharpener just in case it's blunt. Oh yea take a picnic...
This cache is further on from The Haunted Bridge and Beyond The Haunted Bridge. There are deer in the forest. We saw one on the way to place this cache. The views are amazing of the Golden Valley and of The Black Mountains. As you come to the end of the woodland path you will see the lake (swans, ducks, grebes and geese reside here) and The Mynde.
Info about The Mynde ~ The Pye family were reputed to be descended from Viking mercenaries who came with William the Conqueror in 1066 and were rewarded with lands on the Welsh borders in Herefordshire around Kilpeck. The Mynde near Much Dewchurch in Herefordshire was the family seat in Tudor times. Richard Symons of London purchased the Mynde estate, Herefordshire, in around 1740. His brother John owned the Clowerwall estate in Gloucestershire. Richard Symons's only surviving child was Anna-Sophia Symons, whose son, Richard Peers inherited the Mynde estate and assumed the surname of Symons. Richard was created a baronet in 1774, but died unmarried in 1796, when the title became extinct. The property devolved on his death upon Thomas Raymond, who on succeeding to the estate assumed the surname and arms of Symons. The estate then devolved in direct male line until Thomas Edward Raymond Symons (d. 1928), upon whose death the inheritance passed to a fellow army officer, Henry Ambrose Clive, younger son of General Edward Henry Clive of Perrystone Court, Herefordshire.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Xrrc ybbxvat... :0)
Bx, ybbx sbe gur abooyl gerr, naq gung'f nyy lbh'er trggvat... ;0)
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