Fool's Gold? Mystery Cache
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(small)
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The cache has been re-located due to the continuing works in the park.
(It is now in a half litre plastic box)
The above co-ordinates are not the final location for this cache but for a suggested parking place.
You will need to ‘experiment’ a little to identify the elements that make up the final co-ordinates.
Roundhay Park is an extremely attractive and large park in the city of Leeds. Originally, the Round-haigh (haigh is Saxon for hedge) was the round enclosure set aside for hunting purposes, so it appears that the area of Roundhay was once the royal chase for the kings and lords. Stephen Tempest bought the manor in 1629 for £850, unfortunately for him he was a loyalist and so his estates were forfeit to Parliament. The manor was sold to William Lowther on Ingleton, from whom it descended to his nephew Sir John Savile. In 1811 it passed to Thomas Nicholson. The game park was let to the Archbishop of York, but in 1512 it was granted to Thomas, Lord D’Arcy. He was executed in 1537 and his estates were forfeited to the Crown. At that time the park covered 200 acres, it was let to Lawrence Baynes for forty years at a rental of £20 per annum. From him it passed through various hands until being sold in1803 to Thomas Nicholson.The mansion and the park were bought as an estate of 773 acres by the Leeds Corporation in 1871 from the Nicholson family costing over £121,000. At first it was seen as first as a white elephant due to the fact that it was remote and inaccessible to ordinary folk, but the great electric tramway built in 1894 made it a very popular venue for days out.The park contains the Mansion House built in 1818 by Clark of York for Thomas Nicholson, the large lake, Waterloo Lake, which originally was a quarry but was turned into a lake during the depression following the Napoleonic Wars. Today it is used for fishing and boating. Further up the hillside is the smaller Upper Lake. It is said the Nicholson liked the sea so much that he was going to create a third lake on the area where the arena is situated but he died before this could be accomplished. The arena has been the venue for many sports days and events most notably the concerts by the Rolling Stones and Genesis. The park is both open land and woodland with a playground, café, bandstand, fountain and a folly………………
...and so for those foolish enough to try to find this cache, you will need to decode the following:
7ISnBS74HCuBaBe
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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