Bowden Hall - CELF ancient estates and houses Traditional Cache
Bowden Hall - CELF ancient estates and houses
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One of a series of caches placed at the sites of notable ancient Norman and medieval estates within the Chapel-en-le-Frith area.
This cache is a small screw top 'drum'. If small children are with you be aware that there are some potentially slippery stones that need navigating to retrieve the cache.
The area around Chapel-en-le-Frith is noted for the high proportion of ‘great’ houses. These are sited on the remnants of the estates carved out by the early Norman Foresters and other workers within the Royal Forest. A charter of 1222 lists men whose family names (often based on pre-norman place names) are still evident in the names of some of the halls, mansions and farms in this cache series.
The name Bowden is said to be derived from Anglo-Saxon sources meaning “a hollow or valley on a bend”, maybe referring to a river.
The Bowden family are believed to have lived in at Bowden Hall at least from the Black Death until 1665, when the hall was sold as an "ancient mansion" to Sir Simon Degge (1612-1703) a notorious royalist judge.
In 1844, John Slack demolished the ‘ancient’ Bowden Hall and on its site built a new Bowden Hall designed by Architect Richard Lane of Manchester. There are some older 18th century outbuildings remaining in its grounds that contain evidence of bread ovens.
Probably today the estate is most well known for its carp fishing lake.
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(Decrypt)
Jubrire jnagf gb ernpu n qvfgnag tbny zhfg gnxr fznyy fgrcf.
Uryzhg Fpuzvqg
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