The Machine Man pub, situated at the end of this quiet byway, was the second of the four pubs in the village to close in 2001, after the Three Poplars (now the Pendon Museum) in 1954.
However, Machine Man hasn't gone far. He watches over his old pub from this cache, although he's moved a few dozen metres away so cachers are less likely to attract the attention of sober muggles.
The Machine Man may be lonely and unloved now, but could quite possibly be looked back on as the birthplace of a one of the greatest machines of all time - full story below.
The cache contains the log, a pen, and some token swappables for children. Please replace the camo carefully.
Machine Man was made by Beth, 5 years old.
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Virtually all traces of the Machine Man pub - the green building three down from this cache - have been removed. However, when it was open the pub sign outside showed a robot in front of a dystopian metropolis. It is perhaps ironic that in the late 1980s researchers from Culham Laboratories worked secretly on a machine designed to provide a utopian future for humanity. A future where nuclear fusion provides clean energy so cheap it's no longer metered.
Nuclear fusion relies on the same processes that occur in the sun to turn hydrogen into helium. In the sun fusion is contained by huge gravitational forces, but here on Earth we contain the plasma required for fusion in containers called Tokamaks.
The team at Culham had seen a theoretical design released in 1986 for a spherical Tokamak which could hold plasma much more efficiently. One snag - it was seen by many of their colleagues as impossible to build and so they were denied any government funding for their "mad idea".
Undeterred, they began meeting at the Machine Man pub at lunchtimes, with blueprints held down by beer bottles as the designs were refined. Because there was no funding, the machine had to be built with scrap parts from other experiments. Against the odds, in 1991 a machine quite literally designed on the back of beer mats was ready.
Quickly the Machine Man-designed Tokamak - dubbed "START" - was holding plasma at 5,000,000°C, three times hotter than any before it. It was so successful that, despite being expected to last a year, ended up being used for eight years instead.
When it was finally switched off in 1998, the researchers held a wake - of course at the Machine Man pub.