Gypsy Camp Traditional Cache
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The cache location is a lovely part of wooded forest in East Boldre that is locally known as Gypsy Camp.
The cache is a 2.2 litre clip top box containing a logbook, pen and many little goodies!! The container is very cunningly camouflaged. It may take a while to find this one...
Please remember to leave this cache exactly as you found it. If this is not possible, please email us and we'll come and replace!
Geocaching is undertaken entirely at your own risk.
The cache is placed in accordance with the GAGB New Forest guidelines. Please note there is no night caching allowed in the New Forest National Park.
Good luck! If you need more of a hint please email us.
Team Ridout
This is a part of the New Forest that we regularly visit, as Mrs Team Ridout grew up only a few hundred metres from the cache location.
This area is known locally as Gypsy Camp, although the offical name is Broom Hill.
Broomhill Farm was also the name of our Granny Mavis' farm who loved this area and lived so close by. We hope she would have been pleased to learn of a cache being placed here.
In 1926 a Compound system was started which meant that seven areas were set aside in the forest for Gypsies to camp without interference, but they were no longer to be allowed to roam the open forest and camp where they chose. These sites were at Thorney Hill, Broomhill (this location), Shave Wood, Blackhamsley, Hardley, Latchmoor and Longdown. Movements between these compounds were not restricted but they were forbidden to camp outside of these compounds. The compounds had either an insufficient or nonexistent water supply for the inhabitants and no toilet
£2 FTF prize!
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Vs lbh evfr nobir vg nyy, guvatf jvyy jvyy orpbzr zber pyrne.
Gerr jvgu guvpxrfg vil ivarf ba gur gehax.
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