The Vines is an important local garden with a unique heritage and history. The Grade II listed park is situated a short distance from Rochester High Street within the Conservation Area, and is overlooked by some of Rochester’s most architecturally important buildings, including Restoration House where Charles II stayed on the eve of his restoration in 1660.
The Vines originally derived its name from the monks of nearby St. Andrews Priory who used the area as their vineyard. The park is known to have been a favourite haunt of Charles Dickens and is featured in several of his novels; he was seen walking in The Vines just three days before his death in 1870.
Today The Vines is a welcoming space, popular with families, which features an impressive avenue of mature London Plane trees, bordering a central path known as the Broad Walk. The park supports mature shrubberies and colourful herbaceous planting to encourage many wildlife species. (http://www.friendsofthevines.co.uk/)
The cache itself is standard clip-lid tupperware box, space for trackables and swag. GZ is buggy accessible (to a point) as we wanted to make it as friendly as possible for geo-minis. Please return to its nesting place once signed. There's quite a lot of footfall through the park, as such there's a high probability of muggle activity - so eyes sharp!! Hopefully the coords are ok, but as it's our first effort any feedback would be more than welcome!!