Victoria's Post Box #15a – Tring (Brook Street) Letterbox Hybrid

Another cache in what has the potential to become a National Numbered Series of Letterbox Hybrid caches, placed to mark one of a diminishing number of post boxes placed in Queen Victoria’s reign and still in use for regular collections by Royal Mail.

A few simple guidelines will apply to the series (subject to amendment):

• The post box must carry the Royal Cipher of Queen Victoria (in whatever format)
• The box must have regular collections by Royal Mail
• The box must be in the British Isles (so United Kingdom and adjoining Crown Dependencies).
• Any style or colour of box are valid as long as the above all apply

Now to the Cache

This is a replacement cache for GC8943G (a redirection if you like) which I have had to archive as it kept getting muggled. I hope that this one lasts longer. Please try and be as discrete as possible whilst searching.

As before there is a Jigsaw (154 pieces) to solve which I recommend you do in comfort at home before you visit the published co-ords to obtain some values.

Unfortunately GPS signal is not great at GZ (or the final), but you should easily spot this fine example of a Victorian “Wall Box” manufactured by the London firm of Architectural iron founders, W.T. Allen and Co., sometime between 1881 and her death in 1902 which is set into a brick pillar outside No 67 Brook St (and adorned with possibly the geocachers least favourite plant), but fear not, there is no ivy involved in the actual hide!

Please DO NOT attempt to park on the road near the Postbox, traffic is already badly congested with residents parking outside their houses reducing traffic flow to a single lane.

Depending on the time of day of your visit there may be a small amount of parking available at
N51 47.962 W000 39.510, (diagonally opposite the bottom of Shugars Green) but as this is intended for the local residents, I would advise using the free parking given in waypoints which is accessed off of Silk Mill Way.

Please take care with small cachers and geodogs as this can be a very busy road and there are usually lots of parked cars, which can restrict visibility.

You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.

If you know of an eligible post box and would like to add to this series, please apply to Team Hippo for a series number, giving the following:

• Location as in place name (and street if applicable)
• Location in Lat Long format (DD MM.MMM)
• Postbox number

Please note that featured post boxes should comply with the guidelines above. Caches should be Letterbox Hybrid type (and therefore contain a LB stamp), whether placed at the published co-ords, or a simple offset multi, or multi-stage multi, or more of a puzzle style format.