Once part of the Suffolk and Essex Border Caches, this series covers both the Harwich and Shotley peninsulas. A beautiful part of the world- many lovely villages, churches, ports, piers, pubs, rivers, sea, along with a colourful history. Whatever side you choose, you will enjoy caching here in some beautiful scenery
The lighthouses, commissioned by Trinity House in 1862 and completed in 1863, served to guide ships towards Harwich harbour (some 1.5km to the north) their different heights enabling the two lights to be aligned on approach. They replaced two late 18th century lighthouses at Harwich (the `Low' and `High' lighthouses) which had become unreliable due to shifting sand bars around the mouth of the Stour estuary (these can both be seen- the low light-house houses the Harwich Museum). A comprehensive pattern of marker buoys in the harbour approach rendered the new lights obsolete in 1917. The light-houses escaped demolition, but gradually deteriorated through lack of routine maintenance. A major programme of restoration took place between 1983 and 1988. A license has been issued for the High Lighthouse (that on the beach) to be opened to the public, and a camera link to the Low Lighthouse (sea lighthouse). Of course, this has yet to happen.
A= how many lighthouses can be seen
B= how many legs is the beach lighthouse standing on?
C= When were these lighthouses restored? 4th figure
D= how many legs does the sea lighthouse stand on?
E= looking at the sea lighthouse how many windows and doors can be seen?
F= on the beach lighthouse how many steps can be seen in the middle stairs?
The final co-ordinates are:
N51 55 (B-1) (E+1) (F-12)
E001 16 ACD