This multi takes you on a walk around the outskirts of the Mutley area of Plymouth. The route is not a circular and is around 1 mile long.
The stages of the multi lead you to collect clues which will give you the co-ordinates for the physical cache at the end which contains some swappables.
Mutley now predominantly more of a student area, was built as a smart tree-lined avenue in late Victorian times and improved over the next half century as a local shopping place for its neighbourhood and the affluent area to the north. Geography has shaped the Mutley we know today. On the historic main route in and out of the city, Mutley became known as 'the meeting place' and, by 1591 even shaped the course of water supplies into the city. Drake's Leat (a ditch 17 miles long, 6 feet wide and 2 feet deep) brought fresh water from the moors through Mutley Plain itself and into the city.
Until the mid-1800s however, Mutley was largely open countryside. The buildings of the Plain and houses beyond are largely Victorian developments and design. As the housing area expanded in the 1850s-1870s, so did the services of transport, education and commerce. With the onset of war, the Plain rapidly became the city's only shopping centre with some companies even trading from local houses. From the 1950s until today, Mutley has continued to play its historic role in local commerce, transport and education. As such, the Plain preserves its past with the ever-changing present.
Plymouth College was established in 1880 and following a history of educational establishments in Mutley (including Plymouth High School for Girls), Hyde Park School opened in 1904.
Mutley also began to develop as a shopping centre in this period. By the 1930s local firms such as Wheelers, Hardings, Park's Pharmacy and the famous Goodbodys were already well-established.
1. Starting just outside the Mutley area, at the published co-ordinates, you will find yourself outside what is now a large infant and junior school. This school was built on the site of a house – Thornhill House - once lived in by Sir Francis Drake. Name the date on the plaque.
159A
2. This school was established in 1877 and in 1896 it bought out its older rival Mannamead School (founded in 1854), and was temporarily known as Plymouth and Mannamead College. The school's motto, Dat Deus Incrementum – God Gives The Increase, is the same as that of Westminster School, Marlborough College and Tonbridge School. On what date was the stone laid?
2C May DEB6
3. The digits on the yellow sign by the playing fields
22FG
4. Mutley once had its own train station, situated only 3/4 of a mile from Plymouth's main North Road station. Although Mutley train station had been built in 1849, the area saw horse-drawn trams by 1872 and electric ones by the turn of the century. The train station was opened in 1871 by the Great Western Railway on the line from Exeter to Plymouth and was financed by local people in return for a promise of railway shares once it was attracting a profitable level of business. Mutley train station closed in 1939 to allow for track alterations in association with the rebuilding of North Road station, originally built in 1877.
3. The number on the lamp-post
H
5. The area's Baptist (1869) and Methodist (1881) churches were speedily established on Mutley Plain itself and both dominated the area until the late 1970s. Name the date the memorial stone was erected
2I/0J/1KL7
6. Cache is located at N50 AB.(C-D)E(F-G) W004 (H-I)J.K(L+F)I
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