GC4JBVT Now that's Magic #2 (Traditional Cache) in Southern England, United Kingdom created by foxter78

This cache has been archived.

Professor Xavier: As the owner has not responded to my previous log requesting that they check this cache I am archiving it. Please note that as this cache has now been archived by a reviewer or HQ staff it will NOT be unarchived.

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Hidden : 8/11/2013

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Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Parking is available on the side of the road, very close to GZ. As always please take care, especially if accompanied by geokids and/or geodogs. This road is not very busy, but sometimes cars can drive fast along these country lanes. You are looking for a magnetic bison tube, there is no room for swaps or trackables. Please ensure the bison tube is carefully placed back in it’s hiding place ready for the next cacher. BYOP.

Water Stratford is lovely village located on the River Great Ouse within Aylesbury Vale District of Buckinghamshire. It is about 3 miles west of Buckingham near the boundary with Oxfordshire. “Stratford” is derived from the old English for “ford” located by a Roman road. The Roman Road is still traceable though the village. The prefix “Water” was added to differentiate the village from other places called Stratford. The earliest know record of Water Stratford if from the time of Edward the Confessor (reigned 1042-1066). After the Norman conquest of England, Water Stratford was one of many manors in the region that William of Normandy granted to Robert D'Oyly, who was famed for building Oxford Castle. Water Stratford remained in the D'Oyly family until the 13th century, when it passed from Henry D'Oyly to his nephew Thomas de Beaumont, 6th Earl of Warwick. The Earl died heirless, leaving his sister Margaret, by whose marriage Water Stratford then passed to the du Plessis family. Late in the 13th century Hugh du Plessis seems to have granted Water Stratford to Edward I in an exchange of lands. The manor was then the property of successive Princes of Wales until the English Civil War in the middle of the 17th century. The Domesday Book records that by 1086 Water Stratford had a watermill, presumably on the River Great Ouse. It is recorded again in 1278–79, but it was destroyed in 1349 by Isabel de Stratford, widow of a Lord of the Manor of Water Stratford. Recent former residents of Water Stratford include Paul Daniels, magician, hence the use of his catchphrase in the title and Peter Woodthorpe, actor.

Congratulations go to:

FTF: N0hope1972 - a magnificent effort to find it 2 days before we put it there! How did you manage that