A View beyond the Wear View Traditional Cache
A View beyond the Wear View
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A cache just off the road between Tow Law and Thornley Village.
This is a straight forward hide of a Micro sized cache. You need to walk up a slight bank, which can be slippery when wet.
This is one of a series of caches placed between Tow Law and Thornley.
One of only two villages with no through roads in the original County of Durham, (the other is Escomb), the peaceful atmosphere of Thornley Village is very different from the bustle of Wolsingham and Tow Law.
The earliest existing houses date from about 1700, and show the typical alteration from single story animal accommodation to double storey dwelling houses. Most of the two and a half storey premises date from the 1800s. The original school, now a private dwelling was built in 1824 but used as the school masters house after 1845 when a larger school (now the Village Hall) was built to accommodate 70 children.
By 1894 the residents of Thornley included a curate, two cow keepers and a schoolmaster, the California Inn then being run by Thomas Heslop. Today, the residents do a variety of jobs, from farming to running businesses, but the only public services now available are the telephone box, and post box, situated within feet of each other just north of the church.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Hc gura haqre/va fbzrguvat.
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