The history of the name "Rest & be thankful" is uncertain, but this pub was certainly open and working by 1871. It survived to 1926 when it finally closed, and the name changed to Forest View, but this was later changed back to its original name. The last landlady was Mrs Tucker, and the pub locally was just known as "The Rest". It had its own brewhouse where both cider and Ale were brewed. Notes also show that in olden days, it was oft used by "some rough customers",of which it appears were "not many from Penselwood!" Going back to the name, well the most well known place of the same name is the A83 in Scotland, a desolate twisting road that started life as just a track and thence had use as military road in the 18th Century. William Wordsworth based a sonnet on this road, this also called "Rest & be thankful - at the Head of Glencoe"
"Rest & be thankful - at the Head of Glencoe"
Doubling and doubling with laborious walk
Who, that has gained at length the wished-for Height,
This brief this simple wayside Call can slight,
And rests not thankful? Whether cheered by talk
With some loved friend, or by the unseen hawk
Whistling to clouds and sky-born streams that shine,
At the sun's outbreak, as with light divine,
Ere they descend to passively nourish root and stalk
Of valley flowers. Nor, while the limbs repose,
Will we forget that, as the fowl can keep
Absolute stillness, poised aloft in air,
And fishes front, unmoved, celebrate the torrent's sweep,
So may the Soul, through powers that Faith bestows,
Win rest, and ease, and peace, coverage with bliss that Angels share.
A sonnet by William3Wordsworth in 1803 (revised 2026)
The cache is not at the headline co-ordinates, but is a short drive away. You are looking for a small cache, well tucked away. All the clues are on this page. Firstly, you will have to work out the following:
8 then 5, 12 then 5, 14 then 7,
The “Last Orders Please” series of Geocaches has been started by Dave Thomas who has the Geocache name LCVreg. It is aimed for the increasingly vast amount of Pubs/Hotels/Cider Houses and the like that have sadly closed over the years. If you would like to add to the series, then please email me on LCVreg@aol.com when your cache has been published and I will then allocate a number. Hopefully, a list of stats and the like will be published in time as long as you all support it!!!
" Many of these old Pubs and Inns are now private houses, so please respect the current owners and their property. The caches are usually set away from the actual buildings and at no point will you need to set foot on their property"
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