This is the first of three caches placed in the village of Bardsea. On a clear day great views of Morecambe Bay can be seen from the top of the hill not far from where this cache is located.
The village of Bardsea was part of the county of Lancashire until the county boundary changes of 1974.
Once a remote fishing village, Bardsea has a long history and is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it is referred to as 'Berretseige'. The name may possibly derive from the old Celtic words Berthsig which means place of the thickets.
Construction began on Holy Trinity church in the village in 1843, the building was completed in 1853.
Bardsea existed as small fishing community into the mid nineteenth century and was reached mainly by crossing the treacherous sands of Morecambe Bay. It rose to importance when the mining and production of iron ore led to industrialization in the Furness Peninsula, when steamers left Bardsea bound for the Lancashire towns of Fleetwood and Liverpool.
The above information was obtained from the English Lakes website.
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