Earlham Park comprises the grounds of Earlham Hall a grade II listed building dating from 1571. The hall was comprehensively remodelled to roughly its present appearance in 1642 by owner Robert Houghton.
In 1657 the house was acquired by the Waller family and passed to Waller Bacon, son of Francis Bacon and Elizabeth Waller, in 1682. The Bacons occupied the house until 1786 when they leased it to the Gurney family.
The Gurneys were a family of prominent bankers and include the social reformer Elizabeth Fry. The family leased the Hall from descendants of the Bacon family until 1924 when it was bought by the Norwich Corporation (the council).
The hall was used as a maternity house in the 1940s and as a girls school in the 1950s before being leased to the UEA in 1962. Since that time the Hall housed the UEA law school until, in 2010, it was bought by the UEA from the council and they are now carrying out restoration work.
As well as the open parkland the park also houses formal gardens (now in a state of slight disrepair) including a rockery (formerly home to the cache ‘It’s rocky’ GC2E6D4) and a dutch garden near where this cache is located.
The cache is a disguised micro containing a log only so BYOP and please don't screw the lid on the container too hard because it tends to stick.