Nellie's Cache Traditional Cache
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Beverley is full of history and Hengate still has plenty of reminders of that history. This is a cache on a busy junction that will need stealth but brings you in contact with plenty of history. If you are wondering about the cache name, then ask a local where you can find Nellie's.
Beverley has a long history of trades and pilgrimages and a strong hostelry trade grew up to house the many visitors over the years. There were reported to be 222 guest beds in the town in 1756, with stabling for 361 horses. Later in 1883, Licensing Sessions in August revealed that there were 43 public houses in the town, 16 beer-houses and five 'Sweet licenses' giving a total of 64, a proportion of one licensed house for every 179 inhabitants. By 2000 there were still 38 pubs in Beverley but as the town had grown this was one pub to every 552 inhabitants. In the year 2001, 19 of Beverley’s pubs were Grade II listed buildings, three of which are Grade II Star listed. Of its surviving buildings that were previously pubs – another 13 were Grade II listed, one of those also Grade II Star listed.
The oldest surviving pub in Beverley is the Sun Inn near the minster but to get a real sense of history it is worth sticking you nose into the Grade II Star listed White Horse in Hengate which is a warren of small rooms still lit by gas light and is one of the finest surviving examples of an intact 19th Century (very possibly earlier) pub interior in the north of England. Dugdale (an emissary of Charles the second) allegedly wrote his pedigrees of families resident in Beverley and the East Riding from the White Horse in 1666. It no longer has guest rooms as there is clash between fire regulations and restrictions placed on the building by it's listed building status.
Hengate is an interesting street of contrasts. Further up the street you have to step down to enter the houses on the South Side of the street while the newer Georgian houses on the opposite side are set higher. This is because the road was raised by the owners of the new houses when they were built to accommodate their homes (and allowed them to look down on their neighbours).
Further up are the Memorial Gardens (opening times vary) dedicated to those who served in the World Wars and then beyond that is St Mary's, the parish church of Beverley with it's beautiful roof painting particularly in the chancel where the various Kings of England are depicted. A carving of a rabbit in the church is said to have inspired Lewis Carroll's White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland.
Diagonally across the road from this cache is a pub and next to that with green windows, another very old building that has had a variety of owners and use over the years. On the NE corner of the junction there are now flats and an eatery, but these replace the town's Georgian Assembly Rooms where all the town's big social events such as balls would be held.
Please note that the logbook MUST be signed to claim a find on this cache. Found logs without a signature in the log will be deleted after a polite e-mail to request removal of the log.
Congratulations to D&G Powell on their FTF on this cache.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Abg fb VPG (ABG hc gur ynzccbfg)
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