An up-cycled hand cream container
This series of seven caches takes you around the pretty village and surrounding fields of Middle Tysoe, to Lower Tysoe and back. The entire walk is about 1-1.5 hours, including looking for caches (probably less than two miles) and is best started in the centre of Middle Tysoe. We recommend that you take another half hour to enjoy the village shops! The Post Office is an Aladdin's cave of treasure for fantastic gifts and the village shop is exactly as it should be - stocked well and full of everything. A fabulous community set of shops!!
The name Tysoe derives from "Tiw's Hoh" or a spur of hillside dedicated to the Saxon war- god Tiw. Evidence from folk memory and historical documents show that a Red Horse was cut in the hillside above Tysoe, giving its name to the Vale of the Red Horse. Research and aerial photography in the 1960s show that three horse figures were cut in the slope called The Hangings above Old Lodge Farm at different times - one of them a huge galloping horse about 100yds x 70 yds. in size. Later figures were cut at Sun Rising Covert and Spring Hill, but none are now visible. There is evidence of two Roman sites - one on Sun Rising Hill, and the other in a field above Middle Tysoe. In the Civil War, Tysoe was billeted by parliamentary troops before the battle of Edgehill. (Extract from D-block GB-432000-243000 on www.bbc.co.uk/domesday)
Well done to MumandJack for FTF on 1/11/15!
If you're heading to Tysoe Trail No 6 from here, you need to carry on from the bridge (in a NW direction) towards a footpath between two bungalows, towards Lane End. When you reach Lane End, turn right and at junction with main road, turn right again!