One of originally five caches placed on the main road approaches to the town, the idea being to take you around the outside of the town and end with a bonus in the middle. Due to increasing lack of fitness we have had to archive some of them All are on fairly busy roads so please take care especially with young cachers and think about where it is appropriate and safe to pull over the cachemobile.
All, except the bonus, are similar types, but not identical, and are hidden in a similar way, Each has a little bit of potted history of the town, and each has information to make up co-ordinates for the bonus. Because two are now archived, the information for the bonus cache which was in them is A = F = 2; H = 1; I = 2.
In Northallerton the Bishop's fortified house, later known as the Palace, the site of which is to the east of the former castle, was soon built soon after the castle and the Archbishop of Canterbury stayed at Northallerton in 1199 and in 1201 King John rested here, The site of the Bishop’s Palace became a cemetery in 1856, but the moat can still be traced.
Northallerton twice was host to King Henry III in 1236 when he was going to and from Durham, and Edward I made it his stopping-place when on his way to Scotland, being here several times between 1291 and 1304. Edward II rested here in 1312, and Edward III stayed in 1327, 1333 accompanied by Queen Philippa and 1356 and Henry IV twice stayed here when “reducing the north to quietude”.
A feature of Northallerton today is its wide High Street, nearly half a mile long with a fine range of shops and a thriving Market on Wednesday and Saturday with a Farmers Market on the 4th Wednesday each month. Parking is plentiful at reasonable cost or free.
Using the information in each cache, the bonus can be found at N54° AB.CDE W001° FG.HIJ