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My Playground 1.2 Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 10/26/2013
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

The Cache is within the former grounds of Glyncollen House. There is parking available at the bottom of Heol Glan-Nant


 


This is the second in a series of caches that are placed around Ynysforgan/ Parc Gwernfadog, and are linked to areas that I used to and explore/ play as a child.  

You are looking for a small container which has room for swaps. Some swaps are initial included.  You may need to go on tip toe to reach the cache as its located a few metres up from the archway and hidden using some natural resources.

Please bring a pen/ pencil to sign the log just in case the one there goes missing. I would suggest sensible footwear as it can get quite muddy.  

If you have parked around Heol Glan-Nant, it is possible to access the cache location using pushchair or wheelchair as there are paved paths leading up to it.  However assistance may be required to retrieve the cache.

Happy Caching yes

 


Glyncollen House was a Georgian mansion, built between 1750 and 1800. The pleasant district of Glyncollen, the valley of the hazel trees, sloped gently down from the hillside towards the main road at Ynystawe. Boys often used to walk at weekends from Morriston past Glyncollen House and on towards the first of the mountains to the rear of Clydach. In those days, the mid-1930's, there was much talk of the mysterious Gloucestershire man Grindell Matthews who at Tor Clawdd on Mynydd-y-Gwair just beyond this first mountain, was working on "a death-ray"! Local folk were then very uneasy about his activities but in fact he was a very clever pioneer in radio telephony, in sound for films and in electrical impulses similar to the laser beam. Far ahead of his time, he died almost unrewarded in 1941.

Glyncollen House was a typical small mansion of a country squire, and its lodge-house stood at the entrance to the long drive on Llanllienwen Road. The iron gateway was said to have borne a coat-of-arms once. The estate, with its Glyncollen Farm, once extended several miles over to Felin Fran and Morriston. The name "Glyncollen" could have been seen over the kitchen door at the rear. It had about 15 rooms, tall chimneys, winding oak stairs, large fireplaces, and decorated white stucco floral designs on the ceilings of several rooms and frieze strips of floral decoration along the tops of room-walls. The dining room had a particularly beautiful gold and silver design on the ceiling. The house was fronted by a lovely glass doorway, with three glass circles over the porch, and there was a sun veranda, over-hung with creepers at the side. In the cellar was the very old well whose drinking-water was ice-cold on the hottest day. Once the mansion had stables, dovecotes, and extensive kitchen-gardens and orchards. It was encircled by sycamore trees, with tall firs rearing at the side of the porch, and beautiful parkland amid the gold and russet leaves of autumn.

In the 1930's Glyncollen House was the residence of the late Captain Sidney Davies, Managing Director of the Forest and Worcester Tinplate Works at Morriston-a brother of the late Alderman D. J. Davies of "Firgrove", Llanllienwen Road, a former Mayor of Swansea. He was followed as owner-occupier by the late Doctor and Mrs. N. E. Edwards-Jones, in the 1940's. Mrs. Edwards-Jones resided there until September 1973 when she moved to Gower.


Information about the house came from André Scoville @ https://www.facebook.com/MrMorriston

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