Chestfield Teeser Multi-Cache
gold0104: Cache archived in view of lack of activity
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This cache will take you around some of the less well known, but equally nice, parts of Chestfield. The main cache is not at the published coordinates. You will need to find the golf tees and use them to solve the final cache coordinates. Please leave the Tees within their containers.
Your journey will take you mostly on pavements with one section a designated footpath. Some care is needed between the second and third tees as this involves walking on the road without a path.
Evidence has been found of Bronze/Iron Age and Roman Occupation in the Chestfield area. The village sign features a Bishop's Crozier which represents Odo, Bishop of Bayeaux, to whom the manor belonged at the time of the Doomsday Survey. The four stars represent the four farms (recorded in 1334) which historically made up the manor i.e. Chestfield, Bodkin, Highgate and Balsar Street. Chestfield may derive it's name from the de Cestevile (or de Cestuill) family. This is a french name of manorial origin and could be a corruption of chastel-ville (old castle). Alternatively the name could have derived from the old english word Caet, or Chets meaning woodland. The name slowly changed over time to Chasteuille (1334) and then to Chestvyle (1402) and then to Chestfield (1486).
As late as the first world war there were only five farms and 12 residences in Chestfield, but in 1920 the late George Reeves bought "The Manor" and 700 acres of land for £11,548. He then set about developing a Chestfield Park Estate and laid out roads and building plots. The early houses were substantial mock Tudor detached properties and a number of smaller houses built around small greens. He also planned a variety of sporting facilities including the golf club built in 1924. The construction of the railway station (1928) and Thanet Way (1930) gave further impetus to the development of Chestfield and it has continued to develop with additional housing to the present day. (Sources: Chestfield Parish Plan and Canterbury City Council Conservation Area Survey)
To work out the final cache coordinates, find the different colour tees at the various waypoints listed. Use the colours to solve the following:
N 51° 21.0 (a+c)d
E 001° 03.b0(a+d)
Please do not remove the Tees from their containers. Your journey will take you on virtually a circular route, mostly on pavements with one section of footpath. Some care is needed between the second and third tees as this involves walking on the road without a path. During this section, you may want to take a slight detour to my other cache "Cut and Cover" GC35AC2. Each stage is a micro with another micro at the end only big enough for a short pencil and log.
Please be discreet when searching as the previous larger cache was taken.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
[First Tee] Rqtr bs tngr
[Second Tee] Zntargvp
[Third Tee] Onfr bs juvgr cbfg
[Fourth Tee] Jnvfg uvtu jrqtrq va gerr
[Final] Pntr Zvag (nant)
Treasures
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