Canis Spurcus Traditional Cache

This cache has been placed on a public footpath in a residential estate to the east of Exeter. Please be aware this is a high muggle area and STEALTH WILL BE REQUIRED to ensure this cache is signed without undue attention. The cache is accessible from the pavement and is not in the garden of the adjoining property. Please return the cache EXACTLY AS FOUND to avoid suspicion and to ensure the fun is not spoilt for the next person. 

The area around this cache is a new housing development called Newcourt. Around 2000 new homes will be built here once the development has finished and will include a new train station (opened 2015), community centre (opened 2014) and a primary school (due to open September 2016).

Until 2008 the site was used as a Royal Navy Stores Depot. The depot was built in 1944 during the Second World War by an American Support Unit for use in the preparation for the D-Day landings. The land was acquisitioned from the neighbouring Exeter Golf and Country Club. In 1986 the depot employed 100 people and stored electrical and general goods which were used by the Royal Navy for its transport and general needs. Stores arrived by road and were checked in and placed in various store "sheds". Ships would put in their requisitions for supplies and these would be packed on site and delivered by road, rail and air.

If you are interested in seeing photos of how the land around this cache has changed over the last decade, log onto Google Maps and under the Street View options, scroll through the different years from 2008 to the present day. You will be amazed at the transformation!