Hardwick Hall Park Traditional Cache
Deceangi: As the Cache Owner has failed to action the Needs Archiving log, I am Archiving this cache for Non Maintenance
Deceangi Volunteer UK Reviewer
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Cache Contents:
Log Book, Geo Stash Note, £1 for Chocolate for next visitor :-) Swaps. Please sign the log! Note that the car park closes at 8.00pm! Take valuables with you.
Hardwick is situated 2.5 km (1.5 miles from Sedgefield) just off the A177. Since 1972 Durham County Council has managed Hardwick as a Country Park. Now with funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund, a restoration programme has begun which will take 10 years to complete.
Long before Hardwick Hall was established as a landscaped park and garden, the surrounding area was marshy. The name Sedgefield bears witness to this (sedge is a grass-like plant that grows in wet places).
The Hardwick Estate
There has been a house here since Mediaeval times when the manor of 'Herdwyck' first occupied this site. The present hall, now a hotel, was built during the 18th century. In 1748, John Burdon, a wealthy Tyneside businessman, bought the estate and soon embarked upon a dramatic programme of landscape improvement. This included creating an artificial serpentine 'river' which flowed over a cascade into a large ornamental lake south of the house. A circuit walk was laid out around the lake passing a series of decorative buildings. At a number of locations views were revealed so that visitors could pause and admire these ornamental features.
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#########NEW POSITION AND CO-ORDS######### Having problems re-locating this cache. Everytime I go there more trees have been chopped down! Had more trouble setting waypoint cos of tree cover. Take the clue, it's exact to the hiding place. If that's gone; so is the cache! Finger's crossed; third time lucky?
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