In 2020 the local caching community here lost a great friend, he came up with some devious caches and deployed some fantastic hides, he was an adored husband to his wife Jo and his life was tragically taken short way too young. Whilst I have never managed to come up with any hides as devious and sneaky (yet), i am proud to have been part of his life and in the short time I knew him he made a big impact on my life. This cache was sadly lost in being found in its original format, sadly I never got around to looking for this, and after painstaking research with those who did locate it, I have had to replace it with a more simple and easier hide in the same location, otherwise it would have been archived and lost to the community.
I apologise for this simpler hide, but my main concern here is to keep this one active so we don't lose this and I want to keep this active as a tribute. I will also in time look to doing a more sneaky hide here, it is in the same GPS location, but the original location is damaged, so I had to improvise. Thanks to the 'The Hurks' - We miss you.
Fougeres is a town on the edge of Brittany, Maine and Normandy and named after a fern, or from "fous" which means "fosse" ["gap"] (in Brittany and Normandy, a gap is a terrace of land formed by the excavations made on each side of the terrace, and serving as a separation between two properties).
The creation of Fougeres dates back to the Middle Ages. The first mention of the Chateau de Fougeres is found towards the end of the 10th century. At the time, it was a simple wooden fortification located on a rocky ridge, whose position favourably dominated the Nancon (fr) Valley and the surrounding marshes. Fougeres was at the crossing of two Roman roads, one from Chartres to Carhaix and the other of Avranches to Nantes. From the 12th century, the population moved away from the shore of the Nancon and the city grew in height, divided into two parishes: Saint-Sulpice for the lower town and Saint-Leonard for the upper town. Since the Middle Ages, crafts developed around the tannery, the weavers and the drapers in the lower town.
Fougeres is 565.8km from Ashford The Fougeres connection began with a ‘liaison amicale' in 1978 and was followed by an official ceremony in 1984.
Please take care when replacing the cache and hide well - Many thanks.