The Lightning Tree Traditional Cache
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Rectory Park is open to vehicles from 10:30hrs until dusk every day. There is ample parking but the caches can only be accessed on foot.
You are looking for a silver screw top micro that only contains a log, please bring a pen. The Cache is close to a gnarled oak tree that survives despite the fact that fire has consumed most of its heart.
Lets have a Photograph with the lightning tree and please replace the cache as you found it.
John Shilton, a puritan, whose family had owned the advowson (the right in English law of presenting a nominee to an income from the land) of Sutton for many generations, appointed his son in law John Riland MA, son of John Riland Rector of Birmingham as Rector of Holy Trinity in 1689.
When Shilton found himself in financial difficulties Riland helped his patron and himself by buying the parish with a substantial endowment of land and therefore a guaranteed and substantial income for himself and the many members of his family who followed as Rector over the next three hundred years.
In 1701 Riland vacated the old 1528 rectory in Coleshill Street and commissioned William Wilson, a local architect to build a handsome Queen Anne style mansion in several acres of parkland later to be known as Rectory Park.
When he died in 1720 his son Richard Riland MA succeeded as Rector, marrying Mary Bisse. His son and successor as Rector Richard Bisse Riland MA was Warden of the town in 1771 and in 1778 as a prominent landowner supported the proposal for the enclosure of the common land including the Park, which due to much local opposition did not proceed at that time.
Congrats to Gaz_Zippy on his FTF
Additional Hints
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Gerr vf znexrq jvgu pnzb gncr..
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