Winnie The Pooh - Honey Pot Hill - 2 Traditional Cache
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Winnie The Pooh - Honey Pot Hill - 2
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This cache is a screw top container with room for small swaps.
Parking is the same as our cache Holly - see GC2WA1F
Congratulation to Taxfit on FTF. This cache is on a public footpath that leads to Marros Woods.
This cache is part of a set of caches that can be completed on the way to Marros Woods, and they have all been named after friends of Winnie the Pooh.
Sturdy footwear is advised and an ordnance survey map would be helpful as well.
Marros South falls within the historic landscape area of Marros Mountain. Archaeological survey has shown that during the Medieval period Marros Mountain, which includes the area of the site, formed part of the demesne of the Lordship of Laugharne and was cultivated as an open field system associated with a small settlement. However by 1595, and probably even earlier, the area was under a regime of rough grazing or moorland - ‘Mountain’ (Laugharne Corporation) and the settlement had been deserted (Murphy 1998). In the Post-Medieval period, probably as late as the late 18th or early 19th century, several small-holdings were carved out of the heath. One of these, Merrimans Gate (Marros Tithe map, c. 1840), falls within the plantation area and would have occupied part of the Coed Marros site. The settlement was abandoned by the later 19th-century. In the 1980s much of the evidence for the Medieval open field system was erased during land improvement. The existing plantation on the site dates from the late 1950’s and early 1960’s.
During the first World War, troops from Winnipeg (Manitoba, Canada) were being transported to eastern Canada, on their way to Europe, where they were to join the 2nd Canadian Infantry Brigade. When the train stopped at White River, Ontario, a lieutenant called Harry Colebourn bought a small female black bear cub for $20 from a hunter who had killed its mother. He named her 'Winnipeg', after his hometown of Winnipeg, or 'Winnie' for short.
Winnie became the mascot of the Brigade and went to Britain with the unit. When the Brigade was posted to the battlefields of France, Colebourn, now a Captain, took Winnie to the London Zoo for a long loan. He formally presented the London Zoo with Winnie in December 1919 where he became a popular attraction and lived until 1934.
The bear was also very popular with Christopher Robin, son of author A.A. Milne. It was his favourite animal at the Zoo, and he often spent time inside the cage with it. The bear was Christopher Robin's inspiration for calling his own teddy bear Winnie... Winnie the Pooh (this teddy bear started out with the name of Edward Bear). The name Pooh originally belonged to a swan, as can be seen in the introduction of Milne's 'When We Were Very Young'.
If walking from Llanteg, there are two stiles on the way to this cache.
On the way to the woods, you will pass a over a stream, look out for dragonflies here, and swallows and swifts.
We look forward to hearing your stories (logs)of the wildlife you have seen on the way to the cache.
CONGRATULATIONS TO TAZFIT ON FTF
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