Offenham is a large rural village and civil parish in the Wyvhavon District of Worcestershire, England, located about three miles east of Evesham, in the Vale of Evesham. The River Avon flows through Offenham. The civil parish extends beyond the area of the settlement of Offenham and includes Blackminster Middle School and the Blackminster Trading Estate. It was awarded the title of Calor Worcestershire Village of the Year in 2004.
Offenham was founded as a monastic grange and medievel deer park by the Benedictene Abbots of Evesham Abbey in the 13th century, the old grange stood where Court Farm now stands. The grange was established to enclose the large flocks of sheep needed by the Abbots to trade wool with Flanders. During the Dissolution of the Monastries the grange became crown property and HenryVIII granted both Offenham and Evesham to Philip Hoby, one of his English Ambassadors. The grange and park later became the property of the Hazelwood family until the mid-18th century when it was sub-divided, by this time the village had formed an adequate farming and market gardening community.
Offenham village is noted for its 64 ft Maypole, the tallest of only six permanent maypoles remaining in England. On May Day, there is maypole dancing, morris dancing and the crowning of the Queen of May. It is not known for how long Offenham has had a maypole but the tradition dates back to medieval times.
The cache is a rock cache and is hidden in line with the maypole against the wall.