Llanthony Legends #1 Walter Savage Landor Mystery Cache
Llanthony Legends #1 Walter Savage Landor
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A well known poet and one-time owner of the Llanthony Estate, Landor bought the estate in 1808 without seeing it and with the intention of being a model country gentleman. He spent a fortune building roads, bridges, improving properties for tenants and planting, he claimed, some 370,000 trees. However, Landor upset his tenants, quarrelled with his neighbours and became involved in litigation in the attempt to enclose common land in the valley. With the costs of employing agents and lawyers and paying legal fees by 1813 he had run out of money and he left, leaving his brother Henry to look after the estate and bring back some sort of control. The fine house he had begun to build for himself was dismantled by the builders in an attempt to recover their losses. His connection with Llanthony was short, but his impact on the valley has never been forgotten. The trees he planted which border some of the roads are still referred to as ‘Landor’s Larches’ or ‘Landor’s Chestnuts’ and the one isolated steep single arched bridge to nowhere over the River Honddu is still known as Landors’s or Devil’s Bridge.
Cache placed with the kind permission of the Brecon Beacons National Park Authority and Natural Resources Wales.
To work out the co-ordinates you will need to do a little research to answer the following questions.
1. In what year was he born. = AB7C
2. How many letters in his wife’s maiden name. = D.
3. How old was he when he died. = EF
N 51 C(E-C).BA(E-C) W (F-D)(F-E-A)(E-C) (D-F)A.A(B-C)(F-D)
Additional Hints
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Onfr bs Jvyybj hc onax.
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