Bernard Says:
“You are now walking along the cycle track beside the A41. You will have passed the old gravel pits that were dug out in the 1940s/50s to your left on the way to here. Disused for decades, they are now built over by a golf range. On the opposite side of the road, you will see a set of large black metal gates that mark the entrance to Munden Drive which leads up to the rather impressive Munden House, around a mile away. That is some driveway. The building of the M1 in the late 1950s meant that the road had to be raised on a bridge, introducing a blind corner on a single track road. Probably best that it is not open to the public.”
“I first moved to the Watford area from Tanganyika (modern day Tanzania) in 1935 as a 16-year-old. It was a lonely place at first for a boy from a foreign land with a strange accent but I was lucky to make friends with a local lad, called Thomas Miller. He was the same age as I was and worked on the Munden Estate with his father. They were living in one of the estate cottages up on School Lane, out towards Bricket Wood, and I used to meet him in the centre of town whenever he came in with the pony and trap. Many’s the time I rode back out with him to the house and I dreamt that one day I would live in something similar. I’m still waiting for that day.”
“The owners of Munden House were styled Viscount Knutsford and the substantial lands of the estate were also known as Meriden both of which give road and area names to parts of present day North Watford/Garston.”
You are looking for a camouflaged small clip-lock box.
To get to the next cache in the series:
Continue along the cycle track and then turn left in a few metres directly opposite the big metal gates of Munden House.