Daphne du Maurier 1 – House on the Strand. Multi-Cache
Hidden : 5/16/2006
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Daphne du Maurier (1907-89) is one of the most celebrated and best-loved British authors of the 20th Century. She was a resident of Fowey for many years and this is one of an occasional series of caches set to celebrate her life and work. This cache is also set to coincide with the du Maurier Festival, held each May in and around Fowey. Many of Daphne’s outstanding novels and short stories were turned into films, such as ‘Rebecca’, ‘Jamaica Inn’, ‘My Cousin Rachel’, ‘The Birds’ and ‘Don’t Look Now’. But her personal favourite of all her novels was ‘The House on the Strand’, published in 1969 to critical and public acclaim. 2006 was the 10th anniversary of the festival and ‘House on the Strand’ is one of Daphne’s featured works. To fully appreciate the significance of the cache I recommend you read her book



Featured in the book is the Benedictine priory, founded (1135-approx) at Tywardreath, overlooking St Austell Bay, a daughter house of Saint's Sergius and Bacchus of Angers, with which its relationship persisted not always harmoniously-for nearly 300 years.
After the dissolution of the monasteries (1536) the priory, one of the first to be lost under the act, was well and truly vandalised to the point that it practically disappeared. Some of the stone was embarked for the motherhouse at Angers (France) but got no further than the entrance of Fowey harbour where the ship sunk. There and off Polridmouth, some of it was recovered in the last century and taken to Menabilly. Much of what was left, one suspects found its way into houses and barns in the village and into outlying farms . Over the door of one house in Church Street, Tywardreath is a carving of the Virgin and Child from the Priory.

This marks the starting point for the cache. (There is on-road parking nearby) The given co-ordinates are for a point near the carving. Here you need to make a note of the number on the door of the house whose wall contains this piece of the Priory, the two digits are A B. Next cross the road to St. Andrew’s Church, which also features in the book. There, in the Church grounds you will find a fine granite memorial to a former Bishop of Truro who died on his wife’s birthday.

Make a numerical note of his birth date CD EF GHJK (day, month, year). Leave the Church grounds and walk down Tehidy road. The farm land on the left marks the tidal creek along which ships sailed up to the Priory. The rest of the walk to the cache from here would have been under water or on the edge of the estuary at the time of Roger Kylmerth.

Proceed to N50 2A.DCH W004 4F JJJ where you will find a plaque which gives more information about the Priory make a note of the year the monk drowned LMNP, the century the bridge dates from QR and the year the bridge had to be replaced STVW

The cache is situated along what was another creek, now a stream, known as The Haven, at

N50 CP.VDE W004 RL.M(V-W)G.

The cache, when set contained the usual selection of items and a £1 coin for the 'FTF'

Please make sure the cache is well hidden from both sides when you replace it.

Please note that there is no need to cross the stream to get to the cache. On re checking the final waypoint, the calculated waypoint may be up to -.006º (North) and +.001º(West) out. There is however a spoiler picture which gives a clear indication of the site of the cache box.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Onfr bs gerr, njnl sebz cngu.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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