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Hop along Troll Traditional Cache

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Long Man: As the owner has not responded to my previous log requesting that they check this cache, I'm archiving it.

Andy
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Hidden : 9/25/2013
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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A lovely dog walking park with a play area for older children in view of the A316 into London. On a weekend you may also be able to spy the Staines Rugby Club and cobs either practising or playing matches at home.

 

 

 


This park is also within sight of the floodlights of Kempton Park Racecourse. Kempton appears on the Middlesex Domesday Map as Chenetone a later variant of which was Chennestone, with early royal references to Kenyngton a source of some confusion which may relate instead to Kennington; the first Kempton Park was inclosed by royal licence in 1246. Aside from the park, its land was for much of its history a slightly less valuable, smaller manor than that of Sunbury. Most of the ward of Sunbury East was in medieval times was part of Kempton as was the land of the Stain Hill reservoirs and Kempton Park reservoirs. From one corner of the park you can also see the Kempton Steam Museum (which is also worth a visit) The Kempton Park Steam Engines (also known as the Kempton Great Engines) are two large triple-expansion steam engines, dating from 1926–1929, at the Kempton Park waterworks, Middlesex, London. Each engine is of a similar size to that used in RMS Titanic and rated at about 1008 hp. They each pumped 19 million gallons of water a day, to supply north London with drinking water taken from the River Thames. They were the last working survivors when they were finally retired from service in 1980. The engines are of an inverted vertical triple-expansion type, 62 feet (19 m) tall from basement to the top of the valve casings and each weighing over 800 tons. The engines are thought to be the biggest ever built in the UK Our first born mini cacher calls this the Trip Trap bridge park which inspired us to hide our first cache here.

You are looking for a Bison Capsule.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Qbag trg gbb uhat hc frnepuvat sbe n Uvag. Jr'ir qrpvqrq gb fhfcraq gur uvag gvyy yngre......

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)