The Village Pound Traditional Cache
Leonards193: Unable to find and wall collapsing.
Let's hope that gets fixed
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Located on Wotton Road, a place most of us drive by and will never notice... until now!
Please note, the cache is not hidden IN the wall, no need to move any stones to get to the cache.
There have been many finds of Roman artefacts around the area and a small Roman town was discovered at nearby Hall End in 2004.
The villages were once part of the Royal Kingswood Forest which stretched from the River Severn to the Cotswold escarpment until the trees were cleared in the 13th century to create pastureland, primarily for grazing sheep. Bagstone was listed in the Domesday Book of 1068 as “Bachestone Hundred” whereas the first known mention of Ryngeworth (Rangeworthy) wasn’t until 1303.
The Earl of Gloucester, Hugh de Audley, held the manor of Rangeworthy in 1348 but it changed hands many times and it was the Hale family who were responsible for building a manor house at the end of the 16th century which forms the core of the current Rangeworthy Court.
Nowadays Rangeworthy is much larger than its neighbour and is home to the only church, pub and school but Bagstone once had its own pub (The Plough), shop, forge and a school which ran from 1897 to 1922. It also had a Tollgate run by the Trustees of Wotton Turnpike Roads which charged 6s 9d (34p) in 1837 “For one Horse alone drawing any cart” with “Two Oxen drawing to be considered as one Horse”.
A feature commonly associated with toll roads used by sheep and cattle drovers is a pound where stray animals could be kept (impounded) until their owner paid a fine to recover them.
The village pound on the Wickwar Road in Rangeworthy was built in the 1840s and last used formally in 1883 but was restored by the Parish Council in 1993.
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Tebhaq yriry haqre fgbar va pbeare.
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