VS 107 Woburn Sands Traditional Cache

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pixeltash: whoops! Sorry I thought I had temed this one ages ago and was just waiting to get on a proper comuter to archive it... sorry for wasted looking people

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Hidden : 4/25/2014
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Village signs is a series of caches based on the ornate signs that depict the heritage, history and culture of the villages that put them up (normally on the village green!).

The signs can be made of different materials from fibreglass to wood, from forged steel to stone. They can depict anything from local industry to historical events. The tradition probably started in Norfolk or Suffolk and has now spread across most of the country so we thought we would base a series on them!

The sign at Woburn Sands is a very pretty sign dipicting a horse and carriage leaving the station, with flowers in the forground. It was errected by the town council in late 1999.

The sign states that Woburn Sands was formally Hogsty End,
Wikipedia says this about the change of name

"The village name was originally Hogsty End, one of Wavendon's four 'ends' (along with Church End, Cross End and Lower End) but by Victorian times, this un-picturesque name had fallen out of favour, and Woburn Sands had taken over as the accepted name. There is a local story that a schoolmaster was unable to attract business to his "Hogsty End Academy", and was one of the first to promote the use of the new name, but in fact it had been in use before this. The modern place name is related to nearby Woburn in Bedfordshire, and to the sandy local soil resulting from its proximity to the Greensand Ridge, an escarpment of Greensand."

If anybody would like to expand this series please do. I would just ask that you let Smokeypugs know first so they can keep track of the Village Sign numbers and names to avoid duplication.

Congratulations to Aliandtone on a well deserved FTF for sheer persistance!

Additional Hints ()

ab arrq gb fcraq n craal, vg'f ebhaq gur onpx urnq urvtug

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)

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