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Lunatic Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 7/11/2014
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

Raven Meols Lane is one of the older main roads in Formby, leading west towards the coast & Raven Meols Hills, part of the finest dune system in NW England. Since 1995, new houses have been built on the southern side of the road, on the site of a forgotten part of Formby's history.

 


In the late 19th/early 20th century, Shaftesbury House was a Lunatic Asylum housing 34 patients, but more recently it was an Approved School, then a Community Home for Boys, called St Vincent's, run by Catholic Social Services, later Nugent Care. The grounds of this now demolished Victorian Gothic mansion are still a mass of Bluebells in Spring - perhaps why the new estate is called Harebell Close!

Can you find the solitary remnant of this old house? The cache is hidden very close to it. There is a small "Moon" inside!

This small cache tried to be magnetic, but 2 magnets would not hold it to the old cast-iron fittings! It has burrowed beneath a stone instead, for fear of muggles!

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Tebhaq yriry

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)