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.
Northallerton, despite its natural protection and castle suffered from the Scots and in 1138 just north of the town, English forces assembled when the battle of the Standard was fought on what is now known as Standard Hill. After the Scots took Newcastle in 1640 the royal army made for Northallerton, and when negotiations were opened Northallerton was at first appointed as the meeting-place of the commissioners.
Northallerton was constantly occupied during the Civil War and in 1663 it was said to be the centre of a conspiracy. In 1745, when the Duke of Cumberland was marching north, to put down the Jacobite Rebellion with cruel force, his army camped at the Castle Hills.
On the east side of High Street opposite the bus stance, is Porch House. The house, which has been greatly modernized, bears the date 1674, and it is known that, as in the past, the town was host to the monarch, King Charles I who stayed as a guest in Porch House in 1640 and again as a prisoner 1647 (probably still had his head).
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