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This is a nice stroll around Uffculme with a little history thrown in, you are looking for dates on plaques and signs.
Eagle eyes will be required, as well as pen and paper, keep a note of the dates you find as you will need some of them to work out the final cache location. Please put the cache back carefully as it may fall out if not secure.
None of the locations require you to enter any property, though feel free to have a peek inside the Church if you so desire. All the dates are visable from the street or paths.
Uffculme is a busy place so the normal sensible precautions are recommended when walking around, there is road traffic with the occasional lorry heading to and from the feed mill. Parking aplenty at Magelake, so please don't loose any wing mirrors by narrowing the road!
Starting point is outside the primary School of Uffculme, what year was it built 1ABC Go to N50˚ 54.(A-C)60 W3˚ 19.5A(B-C-1)
Here you will find the Old Brewery built by the Furze Family. It has had many uses through the years, from brewing, mineral water production, jam and cider production, even a dolls hospital The polygonal building is four stories high and has a date stone set high which reads ‘Built W.A.D.F. DE5F it can be a little difficult to make out the numbers! Go to N50˚ 54.4D(E-2) W3˚19.(E-3)4(F+D)
Here is an interesting plaque on the wall of a house, what year did James die 1HIJ. Go to N50˚54.I7(I+J) W3˚19.(I+J)5H
St Mary's Church was probably founded in Saxon times although the first mention of it occurs in a charter of 1136. The external appearance of the church is striking, with a bell tower at its west end, mounted by a fine steeple. The peal of bells, progressively increased to the present eight, were recast in 1927 and are well regarded both by the bell-ringing fraternity and the local community. The rood screen is of most notable significance. The centre portion dates from the 15th century. The screen was harmoniously extended in the Victorian era both to the north and the south rendering it, at 67ft, the longest in Devon. Plaque on the entrance, what year did Woodrough die? 1KLM Go to N50˚54.3K3 W3˚19.(K-1)4(L+M)
Uffculme square, There is still an unusual wooden structure in the Market Place, known as the Shambles (bench) marking the site of the ancient market which lasted for cattle sales until the First World War. Possibly the original bench was used for trading of serges for which Uffculme was famous in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries as part of the cottage woollen industry. White house, what year was it built? 1NOP Go to N50˚54.OO(N-P) W3˚19.(O+P-1)N(O+P-1) (Here all Oh's not zeros)
Nicholas Ayshford’s Gift to Uffculme of School and School house, it all started with Nicholas Ayshford, Gentleman of Taunton St Mary, left Robert Kerslake £1200 on trust, to build a school and school house in Uffculme, and use any money left over to purchase lands ‘for endowing the same’. So what year was it founded AD1Q0R Goto N50˚54.(R+1)(Q-2)(Q-R-2) W3˚20.0(2+R)(Q-2)
Bit of a walk to the Sunday School house, built by one of the owners of the Uffculme Wool Mill (The Fox Brothers) Joseph Hoyland Fox, who were all Quakers. But what year was the commemorative stone laid 1STU Go to N50˚54.(T-S+U)4(T-S+U) W3˚20.0(S-2)(T-6)
Quick hop to ColdHarbour Grade II listed house presumably built by or for E.Rooch but in what year? 1VW0 Go to N50˚54.0V0 W3˚20.0(V-4)(V-W)
The Culm valley light railway Line construction began in 1874 and the railway played a vital role in the life of the Culm valley until 1963 when passenger services were withdrawn. However the line continued to be used till 1975 to transport milk from the milk factory in Hemyock. But what year did the line open to passenger services? 1XY6 Goto final cache location N50˚54.CMX W3˚19.IPY
Hopefully your trusty GPS is pointing you in the direction of the old Railway line path , however if you have a Geohound in need of a good run and a swim in the Culm river, continue out of the village on the road behind you and take the footpath the other side of the bridge. This will bring you out just as close to the cache location as the old railway line, but neither lead directly there.
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