Once upon a time (in the Domesday Book), West Hallam was a tiny village. Over the centuries it grew, with a village centre with a church, a public house (The Punchbowl), a 17th century school building, and a few houses. Very rural and idyllic (except for the coal mine on the edge of the village towards Stanley).
But then, from the 1970s onwards, the square of land formed by four roads (High Lane, Station Road, St Wilfrid's Road, and The Village) was completely filled in with housing. West Hallam is now a popular housing estate, which still has the old features at its edge, and is still, fortunately, surrounded by green fields in every direction (the coal mine is long gone).
Except that when they covered the fields with housing, they left a few bits of it undeveloped. Sometimes deliberately, such as with the village's cricket and football pitches, and sometimes because the land was just not suitable for building on.
The aim of this small sequence of caches is to show people that there is far more to West Hallam than the housing estate. It is hoped that further caches will be added to the series
This cache is in the middle of the estate, on a piece of open land which is extremely popular for people walking dogs, kids playing, and teenagers gathering. If that isn’t enough to make stealth an important factor, the GZ is also overlooked by houses in every direction!
The cache is a black nano, so please bring your own pencil.