The Lane Crawl - Twixt Gorsey and Clarks Traditional Cache
lulworth48: GC archived til container replaced. Maybe just for a few days. Mice seem to like it for some unexplained reason.
The Lane Crawl - Twixt Gorsey and Clarks
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This is a series of caches around the Staffordshire village of Kings Bromley. The village has an interesting and varied history. More caches will be added. In its early history, the village was originally the residence of the Earls of Mercia.
King’s Bromley was known as Bromlei at the time of Domesday; and Bromley Regis, well before the 19th century. Leofric, the husband of the famous Lady Godiva, died here in 1057.
At Domesday, Kings Bromley was held by King William remaining in his hands until the 13th century.
About 1670, the manor was sold by Charles Agard to John Newton, lately of Barbados and Bath, who was succeeded by his son, Samuel, and in turn by his son John, who died in 1783, without producing an heir.
In 1794, it was bequeathed by John Newton’s sisters, Sarah and Elizabeth Newton to their cousins, John and Thomas Lane. They divided the Estate between them with John Lane as Lord of the Manor.
The Lane family continued to be owners until the Estate was split up and sold in 1927. The Hall was unfortunately demolished.
The only remaining part being the Water Tower, now forming part of a private property, located beyond Manor Road.
These caches relate some of the key highpoints in that history. The first caches are located along and near Crawley Lane – hence the title.
But, you will now also recognise the meaning, with the Lane family playing a central role in the more recent history of the village. More history about the village can be found in several publications by Kings Bromley Historians.
In 1850, the adjacent land was called Gorsey Leasow, hence the first name of this cache, was owned by John Newton Lane, with Augusta Rochford as tenant.
Leasow is another name for a pasture, derived from Anglo-Saxon.
Gorsey pasture was to the left of the location of this cache and Clarks land to the right.
This cache is a camouflaged 35mm film container with log and small pencils. You may need your own writing device. You may also need to act with some stealth.
The cache also contains a FTF Badge.
Please re-hide the cache exactly how you find it, or even better.
Happy caching.
Congratulations to Chris H1 on being FTF. You have the complete bragging rights! 
Look out for the series; they may get harder to find.
Congratulations to Team Notstrong which belied its name and can claim STF; you also have strong bragging rights.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Ghor, cbfg be fgnxr, (nsgre ebq, cbyr be crepu.)
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