Scouting for Hesley Traditional Cache
Dalesman: Archived due to mis-information regarding the privacy of the area.
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A great cache for visiting scout groups and geocachers together! Cache is a plastic box that can hold trinkets and tbs.
Planted by the 4th Tynemouth Scouts.
Every year our scout group travels to a different scout centre to take part in our mystery camp, children arrive without any prior knowledge of any activities that we intend to do. This year part of our challenge was to go geocaching, plant a geocache and start a geocoin on its first journey so that we can continue to track its location.
This is our second cache, the first is attached to our scout hut in Tynemouth, Newcastle.
Hesley Wood Scout Activity Centre is situated near the historic city of Sheffield, and the town of Rotherham, scouts visit here most weeks and take part in a range of outdoor, adventurous activities.
HESLEY WOOD originally formed part of the Earl Fitzwilliam's estate and it is reputed that, in mediaeval times, monks explored the land for iron ore. During the 19th Century the land was acquired by mining company Newton Chambers Ltd for coal mining and there is still evidence of bell pits, mine shafts and opencast workings around the site.
Mining continued until the 1920s when the site became dormant until 1946. In that year Newton Chambers Ltd devised a scheme through their Managing Director, the late Sir Harold West, then County Commissioner, whereby the South Yorkshire Scout Association made use of the land at a peppercorn rent with the option to buy 68 acres of woodland plus 23 acres of grassland. This was purchased in 1970 with a grant from the West Charitable Trust.
In June 1946, the first meeting was held to decide how Scouts could best use Hesley Wood. From this meeting and subsequent tremendous efforts, training and general camping was able to commence in 1948, during which approximately 200 camping days were recorded. In January 2000 the site acquired another 41 acres, which brings the total acreage to 132.
This cache does not take you into the actual scout centre site, permission from the owner and warden has been sort and accepted.
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