Bernard’s Stroll 5 – Munden House Traditional Cache
TR64: After this has gone missing twice in a matter of days, it is clear that the hide has been compromised and so it will be archived. To preserve the historical information accompanying Bernard's Stroll, a new cache will be created much closer to the Mundon House gates.
Bernard’s Stroll 5 – Munden House
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This is the fifth in a fifteen cache series dedicated to our great friend and near neighbour Bernard Glovell-Raff who has lived in the area for well over 60 years and walks this route nearly every day. He has seen the area change over the decades and always has a story to tell when we accompany him. The route is a rough figure of eight and should take 2 hours or so to complete.
Bernard Says:
“You are now walking along the cycle track beside the A41. To the left used to be the old gravel pits that were dug out in the 1940s/50s. Disused for decades, they are now built over by a golf range. To the right, you will see a set of large black metal gates that mark the entrance to Munden Drive which leads up to the rather impressive Munden House, around a mile away. That is some driveway. The building of the M1 in the late 1950s meant that the road had to be raised on a bridge, introducing a blind corner on a single track road. Probably best that it is not open to the public.”
“I first moved to the Watford area from Tanganyika (modern day Tanzania) in 1935 as a 16-year-old. It was a lonely place at first for a boy from a foreign land with a strange accent but I was lucky to make friends with a local lad, called Thomas Miller. He was the same age as I was and worked on the Munden Estate with his father. They were living in one of the estate cottages up on School Lane, out towards Bricket Wood, and I used to meet him in the centre of town whenever he came in with the pony and trap. Many’s the time I rode back out with him to the house and I dreamt that one day I would live in something similar. I’m still waiting for that day.”
“The owners of Munden House were styled Viscount Knutsford and the substantial lands of the estate were also known as Meriden both of which give road and area names to parts of present day North Watford/Garston.”
You are looking for a camouflaged 4-inch tube. There are a number of very old caches (from 2004) that can be found on the approach to Munden House and it is well worth a diversion if you have the time.
To get to the next cache in the series:
Continue along the cycle track and then turn left onto the path opposite the big metal gates.
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