The cache is NOT in the stone wall.
The area around Chapel-en-le-Frith is noted for the high proportion of ‘great’ houses. These are sited on the remnants of the estates carved out by the early Norman Foresters and other workers within the Royal Forest. A charter of 1222 lists men whose family names (often based on pre-norman place names) are still evident in the names of some of the halls, mansions and farms in this cache series.
Martinside is said to have been named for the marten that roamed there.
According to the Court Rolls of 1250’s a William Foljambe was the landholder of Martinside, where he “built four new houses in the Forest at Martinure, (Martinside) to wit two granges and two bovices (shippons or cattle sheds) in which he had and nurtured 30 beasts”. He was one of the principle freeholders of the area at this time.
The Foljambes held the Hall until 1557 when it was sold to the son of Arnold Kyrke of Whitehough Old Hall(GC3DAMK).
The property in the 16th century was described as being "a large black and white building, mostly built of timber and consisting of two wings and a centre. It contained 26 rooms and was as big as a church". Old armour and swords hung in the hall. A part of one wing was set aside, consisting of two sitting-rooms, kitchen and two bedrooms which were called the “widow’s corner”. These were always left to the owner’s widow, if any, so that she might not be driven from home by the heir.’
This ‘hall’ was pulled down and rebuilt in the middle of the 19th century by Adam Fox who had been the bailiff and tenant of Martinside for many years when the Kirk family sold the property to him.