VS #1043 - Little Wilbraham
Little Wilbraham Village Sign was erected by the parish council. The children at Great Wilbraham Primary School produced ideas for the sign. Developed from a selection of the children's ideas, the proposed design includes references to relevant historical links for the village. The overall circular form of the sign is in the shape of a Saxon shield, referencing the earliest recorded habitation in the area. The village name is derived from the name of a Saxon princess, Wilbur. Both the villages of Little Wilbraham and Great Wilbraham were linked with the Knights Templars, growing food for the hospice at Denny Abbey. The sign acknowledges this by including the Knights Templars cross in the design. The four quadrants formed with the combination of the shield and cross have illustrations of areas of Little Wilbraham. The Church, the Hole in the Wall, the Almshouses and the Windmill.
This is a multi cache and IS NOT at the published coordinates.
The cache is a 5ml tube.
To find the cache:
At the published coordinates you will find the village sign with a plaque high up on the back. Check this out.
The year on the plaque is ABCD.
Final coordinates:
N 52° CA.AAC
E 000° C(C+D).DDD
Checksum of all digits in the coordinates = 33
About Village Sign Caches
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This cache belongs to the Village Sign Series, a series of caches based on ornate signs that depict the heritage, history and culture of the villages that put them up (generally on the village green!).
The signs can be made of different materials from fibreglass to wood, from forged steel to stone. They can depict anything from local industry to historical events. The tradition probably started in Norfolk or Suffolk and has now spread across most of the country so we thought we would base a series on them!
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More information, bookmarks and statistics can be found at the Village Signs Website
If anybody would like to expand the Village Sign Series, please do.
I would ask that you request a number for your cache first at www.villagesignseries.co.uk
so we can keep track of the Village Sign numbers and names to avoid duplication.