Loire Valley Traditional Cache
Paulamel: The cache has been taken. The bag is empty. Sorry guys.
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This is the first of a series of six caches named after my expeditions abroad.
Replacement of the original. This is now slightly larger container and holds swag, a geocoin and a TB at setting. There is a log and pencil. PLEASE DON'T SLIP!
If there is a Red Vauxhall Astra in the drive, you may find an added bonus on the back window...
Special thanks for Norfolk12 for finding lost Loire Valley version 1.
★★Congratulations to Tazmyers for FTF ★★
SWANBOURNE
Swanbourne is a pretty village, and a great base for local walks. Within the village you will find a village shop and post office, a Church, Chapel, and a pub/restaurant. Swanbourne village name is Anglo Saxon in origin, and possibly means 'swan stream'. In the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in 792 the village was recorded as ‘Suanaburna’. Swanbourne House was bought in 1798 by Thomas Fremantle (1765–1819), for his wife Elizabeth, known as Betsey, for 900 guineas. The Fremantle family, originally from Aston Abbotts, had strong naval connections. Their eldest son Sir Thomas Francis Fremantle (1798–1890) became a prominent Tory politician. Their second son Charles (1800–1869) followed his father into the British Royal Navy and was instrumental in founding the Swan River Colony in Western Australia. This accounts for the place names Fremantle, Swanbourne, and Cottesloe in the Perth area of Western Australia.
LOIRE VALLEY, FRANCE
The architectural heritage in the Loire Valley's historic towns is notable, especially its châteaux, such as the Château d'Amboise, Château de Chambord, Château de Chinon, Château du Rivau, Château d'Ussé, Château de Villandry and Chenonceau. The châteaux, numbering more than three hundred, represent a nation of builders starting with the necessary castle fortifications in the 10th century to the splendor of those built half a millennium later. When the French kings began constructing their huge châteaux here, the nobility, not wanting or even daring to be far from the seat of power, followed suit. Their presence in the lush, fertile valley began attracting the very best landscape designers. In addition to its many châteaux, the cultural monuments illustrate to an exceptional degree the ideals of the Renaissance and the Age of the Enlightenment on western European thought and design.
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