Howell Wood Country Park Multi-Cache
Kev W: Cache collected and finished. Thanks for all the visits
-
Difficulty:
-
-
Terrain:
-
Size: 
(regular)
Please note Use of geocaching.com services is subject to the terms and conditions
in our disclaimer.
Carparking available at N53° 35.030 / W01° 20.857, nice broad paths and is possible to go around with a pram apart from the last 50m or so.
Co ordinates above lead to a small container which then has the postion of the final cache site. Walk is about 2km round trip.
Howell Wood lies at the westernmost point of Doncaster Borough, in the Parish of Clayton with Frickley. Dating back to the 1700's the wood was planted mainly as a game reserve by William Marsden of nearby Burntwood Nook, a small stone mansion on the hilltop 0.5 miles away. When the Wood was planted the surrounding land was farmed for arable crops, probably looking much as it does today.
Today the northern part of the Wood is now a Country Park and is open to the public all year round.
THE ICE-HOUSE
In the 1800's the gardeners from Burntwood Nook would have spent the coldest days of winter collecting ice from the fishing lake. It was crushed and packed into the 18' (6m) deep well of the Ice-House, layered between straw for additional insulation.
Nowadays the Ice-House is an ideal place for numerous insects, bats and other small mammals to make a home.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
[1st Part] Cevagrq Pb beqvangrf ba oevqtr haqre yvc ba yrsg unaq fvqr snpvat gur Vpr Ubhfr[2nd Part] Ubyyl gerr arkg gb gur Bnx
Treasures
You'll collect a digital Treasure from one of these collections when you find and log this geocache:
Loading Treasures