I hide behind the hill Traditional Cache
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A micro cache along a micro road
Please replace carefully after you find. This cache was replaced with a different kind after it went missing in March 2014, however you are still looking for a micro.
Erdingtons name derives from the Anglo-Saxon, Eardred ing tun meaning 'Eardred's people's farm' or perhaps the 'village of the Eardredings'. The settlers were either followers of a man called Eardred, or perhaps a clan called with the surname, Eardreding, meaning Eardred's people. The name Erdington also evolved via Hardintone into Yarnton, and later Yenton. In his First Impressions of Birmingham in 1837, the Birmingham Post journalist Eliezer Edwards wrote that Erdington, was then universally called 'Yarnton', implying that at the time of publication in 1877, this was no longer the case.
Erdington was one of many manors owned before the Norman Conquest by the Anglo-Saxon, Earl Edwin of Mercia. However, by 1086 it was in the hands of the Norman overlord, William FitzAnsculf from whom it was held by Peter, also a Norman. Sometime between 1135 and 1166 Gervase Paynel, then overlord of Erdington, confirmed the manorial rights to Henry de Erdington, who may well have been a descendant of Peter.
http://billdargue.jimdo.com/placenames-gazetteer-a-to-y/places-e/erdington/
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