Another Halstead cache named after a young member of our family.
The cache is located along Shoreham Lane, not far from the interestingly named road of Beldam Haw, built as public sector housing in 1921 and 1934. It is also next to a farm where you sometimes see sheep in the adjoining field.
Hasted's History of Kent published in 1797 says that:
“The parish of Halstead lies on high ground among the hills. It contains about nine hundred acres of land, of which about eighty are wood. The foil (sic) is either chalk or a stiff clay, much covered with flints. The Placehouse, with the church near it, is situated about half a mile westward from the high London road, leading through Farnborough towards Sevenoke, at the distance of about eighteen miles from London, on which is a hamlet called Lock's Bottom. The village of Halsted stands about a mile south-eastward from the church; southward of which the parish is bounded by a large coppice wood, reaching almost as far as Madamscott-hill, the whole of it is rather a lonely unfrequented place, having nothing further worth mentioning in it”.