Big Tractor 1 Traditional Cache
Tractorboy80: Gone Missing
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My first cache! You are looking for a standard sized camouflaged click 'n' click container with a logbook, pen, small swaps etc.
There is limited parking on the road nearby and the cache is only a short walk from Hattons road.
The co-ordinates take you to a short stretch of the pathfinder route, running through the ever expanding village of Longstanton. Stealth may be required down this path as dogs and their muggles frequently use it. The path is buggy friendly, although may be more of a challenge in the winter months, this stretch of the pathfinder can be accessed from the road either from Hattons Road or School Lane.
When placed, the inventory consisted of a help for heroes geocoin, a trackable, an unactivated first to find geocoin as a prize for the FTF and some other swag.
Longstanton.
For most of its history Longstanton was split into two parishes: the larger Long Stanton All Saints to the north and the smaller Long Stanton St. Michael to the south.
The first known reference to the village, dating back to 1070 AD, calls the village "Stantonia" and describes it as "an enclosed settlement of stoney ground." By the time of the Domesday Book "Stantone" was one of the most populous villages in the area, with 67 peasant tenants being recorded. By 1563 this had dwindled to 42 families, and the settlement had been overtaken in size by other nearby villages such as Chesterton. The population fluctuated between 400 and 600 for several centuries, until the village was transformed by the opening of RAF Oakington in 1940, resulting in the building of three new housing estates in the village and a trebling of the population. The airbase became an army barracks in 1975; on its closure in 1999 most of the housing was sold to private owners.
Pathfinder route
The pathfinder route is a 46 mile walk around the four main local Airbases. The Pathfinder Force operated out of RAF Wyton; RAF Gravely; RAF Oakington; RAF Warboys and their satellite bases from 1942 to 1945, flying Halifaxes, Lancasters, Mosquitos, Stirlings and Wellingtons. The Force had twenty squadrons in the three years of its existence. Of the Force, only two squadrons are still flying in operational service; 7 Sqn, Royal Air Force (one of the original five squadrons) and 405 Sqn, Canadian Forces Air Command.
The help for heroes geocoin placed in the cache was selected with this in mind.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Onfr bs Gerr
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