ROMING IN THE WOOD
(Bucks)
The Cache is located at:
N51° 53.817 / W000°
57.997
To get to to the cache, follow a road between Poplar trees which
branches off (hehe!) the Calvert to Botolph Claydon road. This road
often plays host to film crews as it's very French and there are no
obvious power or telephone lines to spoil the illusion of
Napoleonic France - Picture below. Towards the end, there's an
entrance to a rough road where you can park out of the way of the
farm vehicles which frequent the lane. Walk from here, following
the track past bees and the occasional deer until you reach a wide
avenue in the woods. Elsewhere this might just be fire-break, but
OS map 165 users might wish to study it. This cut in the trees
lines up with an identical one in the neighbouring Home Wood and
they both point directly to nearby Claydon House - once home to the
Verney family and Florence Nightingale. Is this the remains of some
lost approach (unlikely as there's no obvious access to the house
from the south) or vanished vista? If vista it was, there would
have almost certainly have been something at the end of it to act
as an eye-catcher. A obelisk or statue perhaps. Nothing remains
now, but I don't think it was my imagination that there seems to be
a circle of greener grass at its furthest point. This suggests
ground that's been disturbed but I can't find any records of a
garden feature here, so who knows?
Anyway, happy hunting for your own treasure!
The cache originally contained:
1x Sunglasses
1x Thing for cleaning gunk out of your keyboard
2x Tealite candles
1x 'West Wycombe Caves' leaflet
1x 'Bekonscot Model Village' leaflet
Plus the usual: Cache notice, log book, pen, pencil.
While you're in the area, I suggest you try my evil
CLAYDON CONUNDRUM cache, which starts just up the road
in the grounds of Claydon House. Otherwise have a go at my
Chess themed Geocache No.5 - WHITE KNIGHT
(Bucks). It's within short driving distance in a village
called Whitchurch.
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