The coordinates take you to an information board about the history of Palace Gardens estate which is the area you are walking through. It is called Palace Gardens for good reason. The red brick gateway and impressive wall is all that remains of Oatlands Palace, a once imposing royal residence which dominated the eastern side of Weybridge from its prominent position on the River Thames.
Just after 1478, London goldsmith Bartholomew Read bought the moated site, replacing the timber buildings with à large, fashionable brick manor, bordered by four towers, one in each corner, and containing a centrall courtyard.
By 1537, Oatlands Palace had been acquired by King Henry VIII, with the original building developed by Henry into the privy court, middle and outer courts were gradually added in front of this structure and the moat drained. The palace provided a counterpart ‘Queen's palace' within a trio of royal residences, lying near to the 'Prince's Palace' of Nonsuch and the 'King's Palace' of Hampton Court.
Covering fourteen acres of land, the king had intended the palace to be the residence of his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, however following their short-lived union it is thought that Henry subsequently married the young Catherine Howard at Oatlands chapel in 1540.
The young Princess Elizabeth avoided the plague by escaping to the spacious country estate, and after becoming Queen in 1558, she returned frequently to hunt deer in the park.
In the 1630s, King Charles I's wife Henrietta Maria completely redecorated the interior of the palace and employed the esteemed John Tradescant the Elder to improve the gardens.
During the English Civil War the palace became a station for Parliament's troops. After Charles I's historic trial and execution in 1649, the palace was sold to Robert Turbridge for £A,BCD and then demolished by him. Some of the bricks were used in the construction of the Weybridge canal. this You are looking at the only remaining wall of the outer court left standing.
Remarkably, much of Oatlands Palace was rediscovered over 300 years later. Excavations which took place from 1968-1973 and 1983-1984 uncovered the palace foundations arong with a huge number of finds.
This previously bricked-up archway was finally opened in 1985 as part of the redevelopment of the surrounding area, and to this day Embriage Museum holds a huge archive relating to the former palace in its collection.
THE CACHE
Use the amount of money RICHARD Turbridge paid for the palace and replace ABCD with the number.
N51.22.A(C+D)(A+C+D-1)
W0 26.(AxC)(CxA)(A-D)
You are looking for a small disguied container.