Woodfarm & East Renfrewshire Cricket Club.
Woodfarm, named after the Wood Farm to the southwest, was farmland until the end of the Second World War, when this area was developed for housing. To the west was the industrial village of Thornliebank, built up around fabric printing works. To the north were the Flag Quarry, the English Quarry and the old Eastwood Golf Course, with Giffnock Colliery beyond the railway line. To the east was Orchard Farm, which was developed before the Second World War, giving name to Orchard Drive and Orchard Park in the vicinity. To the south lay Eastwood Park, Hall and House, with the estate that is now Rouken Glen Park further south again.
You’ll find a number of good caches in Rouken Glen Park, which was voted the UK’s best park in 2016. There are traditional, multi and earthcaches there. It is also where I started geocaching with my children. Some of those caches, plus others in Thornliebank, will give you an insight into the industrial past of Thornliebank. There are also caches in the nearby Eastwood Park.
Woodfarm Playing Fields are now owned by East Renfrewshire Council and is the home to East Renfrewshire Cricket Club, founded in 2013.
The watercourse nearest the cache is referred to as the Moor Burn on the old maps, but is now named Auldhouse Burn, which is also the name of the watercourse running to the west of the playing fields. This western watercourse is generally regarded as the boundary between Thornliebank to the west and Giffnock to the east. The main branch of the Auldhouse Burn is actually further west again, running through Rouken Glen Park, then west of Thornliebank and was the reason for the industrial past of Thornliebank.
Bring your own pen.