Saxby Post Box Traditional Cache
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There is a decided lack of caches in this corner of Leicestershire so here are a few cache and dashes to help alleviate this.
This cache is a nano with a magnet in the bottom - please ensure you replace it carefully for those who come after you.
It is not required for you to move, disturb or climb anything to locate this cache, the hint should make it very obvious.
Important Note: The log book is quite tight inside the container and will probably get tighter as the roll is used more - it is therefore recommended that you bring along a pair of tweezers.
The Village
Saxby is a small village five miles to the east of Melton Mowbray in the parish of Freeby. The origins of the name of the village are undoubtedly Viking from the old Scandinavian word ‘By' meaning ‘Farmstead or Village' of a man named ‘Saksi' or of the ‘Saksar' (the Saxons) and it is recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086 as Saxebi.
The writer Arthur Mee wrote in his ‘King's England' account of Saxby that "It has cottages where once there were huts of wattle and mud and a church with a grey tower where Saxon horsemen rode, for here was a Saxon camp of considerable importance."
Saxby is one of the Thankful Villages - only 51 of which are known. These villages and parishes sent men to fight in the Great War, 1914-1918, and all of them came back alive.
Thankful Villages (also known as Blessed Villages) are settlements in both England and Wales from which all their then members of the armed forces survived World War I. The term Thankful Village was popularised by the writer Arthur Mee in the 1930s. In Enchanted Land (1936), the introductory volume to The King’s England series of guides, he wrote that a Thankful Village was one which had lost no men in the Great War because all those who left to serve came home again. His initial list identified 32 villages. In their November 2010 update to their Thankful Village website, Norman Thorpe, Tom Morgan and Rod Morris have identified 52 parishes in England and Wales from which all soldiers returned.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Zntargvp / yrsg-fvqr
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