The first in a series of Green Spaces/Parks/Woods in the general area of Torbay.
This one provides three "spaces for the price of one" - Thatcher Green, Hopes Nose, and Thatcher Pines.
Thatcher Green is approx. 100 metres to the west. The entrance to Hopes Nose is approx 100 metres to the northeast and Thatcher Pines is overlooked by the cache site.
Why "Thatcher" Rock - The official reason as to why it's called Thatcher Rock is because if you look at the Rock from a right angle there is a small outcrop that looks like a Thatcher working on the roof of a Devon Cottage.
Thatcher Rock is located 300 yards from the shore on Meadfoot Beach. The rock is 43 metres high. On the rock there is a beach, but the beach is 25 ft above todays sea level. This is because of an Ice Age over 2 million years ago.
The rock is inhabited today by proper seagulls who eat fish and not the lazy ones you see in the harbour that try to steal your chips. Thatcher Rock is Middle Devonian Limestone, which is exactly the same kind of stone as Berry Head in Brixham.
Folklore has it that a mad Monk lived on the rock. He would live on a diet of fish and seagulls and had to rely on the rain water from the rock pools in order to survive. He was loved by the locals, who with special boat trips arranged to see him and people were often seen throwing gifts to him on the rock.