This cache is NOT at the posted coordinates. To work out the coordinates, you must collect the necessary numbers by completing Seven Woods Walk Adventures part 6.
You can access the Adventure Lab here.
Welcome to the Seven Woods Walk adventure series. Did you know that there are 7 woods between Thundersley and Leigh? This loop goes through Hadleigh Great Wood, West Wood, Valerie Wells Wood, Starvelarks Wood, Tile Wood (now spilt into Wyburns Wood and Tile Wood), Pound Wood and Belfairs Park Wood, as well as Little Haven Nature Reserve.
The full loop is about 13km long and will take about 3 hours, but you can also do it in sections. We have divided the loop into 6 sections, with an Adventure Lab and bonus cache for each section, placed so that you can find them if you walk the loop clockwise. The stages are numbered to help with this but can be done in any order. There is also a History Mystery cache that you can solve at home and then find along the way, as well as some traditionals between the woods. See the gallery for a detailed route map. Be warned - the paths through these woods can be very muddy!
Part 6 - Belfairs Park Wood
The Anglo-Saxon word 'leah' means clearing and occurs in several local place names, including Hadleigh, Thundersley and Leigh-on-Sea, showing that woodland was being cleared and settled at this time, possible as early as the 6th or 7th Century. 'Leah' could also mean woodland, and the name Goldingsley (part of Belfairs Wood) shows that it goes back to before the Norman Conquest. In fact, a possible Neolithic hammerstone was found in Belfairs Wood.
The Endeavour was a Leigh cockle boat built from local wood in 1926 at the Sutton and Wiggins boatyard which still exists today by Leigh-on-Sea railway station. It was one of 6 local boats commandeered by the Royal Navy to go to Dunkirk during Operation Dynamo and used to ferry soldiers from the beach to the larger boats, because of its shallow draught. It has now been restored using timber from Belfairs Wood after sinking in the 1987 hurricane.
This bonus cache can be found at: N 51° 33.UVV E 000° 38.WXY