GC442VR Erdington High Street Cache (Traditional Cache) in West Midlands, United Kingdom created by Steve12210

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GC442VR ▼

A cache by Steve12210 Message this owner

Hidden : 1/8/2013

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Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

You are looking for a cache so brazen it does not even try to conceal itself, it's just there for everyone to see. Hundreds of Muggles walk past it every single day without giving it a second thought. The cache itself is not hard to find as I've mentioned it is not even hidden from view. The challenge of this super urban cache will be retrieving, signing and replacing the log without getting Muggled. Extreme Stealth Required!

There has been a village at Erdington since before Saxon times. By 1066 Erdington belonged to the estates of Edwin, Earl of Mercia, and many of the familiar thorough fares we know today were in place. Kingsbury Road and Chester Road were part of an important network of routes that were essential for trade and survival to the village's Norman inhabitants. The powerful De Erdington family came to prominence around 1166 when Henry obtained the manorial rights from Gervais Pagenal of Dudley, thus beginning a long association between Erdington and the De Erdington family which lasted until 1467, when the family died out. Their tomb can still be seen today at Aston parish church. Erdington Hall was built in the mid 1600s and was the manor house for Erdington until its demolition in 1912 to make way for the construction of the Tyburn Road. The prominent owners of the Hall included the Jennens family who lived there until the eighteenth century, Sir Lister Holte and William Wheelwright, who is believed to have given his name to Wheelwright Road. Erdington was very much a rural area until recent times. In the mid eighteenth century it had a population of under 700 and consisted of 40 farms, 96 cottages, 2 smithies and a shop. The arrival of the canals at the end of the century encouraged some industrial development but the nineteenth century introduction of the railways was the spur to Erdington's suburban growth, seeing the population increase to 9,262 by 1891. In 1894 Erdington separated from the parish of Aston, to which it had belonged since ancient times, and became a self governing Urban District Council with its own administrative centre at Rookery House, the former home of Dorothy Spooner the wife of the anti-slavery campaigner William Wilberforce. The UDC was responsible for installing sewers and street lighting, building new houses, roads and footpaths. They were also responsible for building Erdington Library, improving the transport system with the introduction of Erdington's first tramway and establishing three public parks. They also built Moor End Lane School so that children did not have to cross the busy High Street to get to school. In 1911 Erdington was absorbed into Birmingham and continued its growth as a prosperous suburb.

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