VS #1885 - Caddington
Two signs for the price of one!
Caddington is a village and civil parish in Bedfordshire.
The place-name 'Caddington' is first attested in a list from circa 1000 AD of the manors of St Paul's Cathedral where it appears as Caddandun. It appears as Cadandune in the Codex diplomaticus ævi Saxonici of circa 1053, and as Cadendone in the Domesday Book of 1086. The name means 'Cada's down or hill'.
Caddington was once the centre of a thriving brick industry built around the rich source of clay. In 1908 there were two major brick fields.
Much of Caddington is now urban and there has been much residential development in recent years with the provision of local facilities such as shops, schools and a public hall. Caddington still retains its village green and nearby is the medieval parish church, restored in Victorian times.
Much as I like the Festival of Britain village signs, you will need to visit the more ornate sign to calculate the final coordinates:
N 51 51.ABC W 0 27.DEF
where:
A = Last digit of year on front (memorial stone)
B = Sum of last two digits of year on rear (metal plate)
C = Sum of the first two digits on rear (metal plate)
D = Last digit of year on front (memorial stone)
E = Third digit of the year on front (memorial stone)
F = Sum of the first two digits on rear (metal plate)
Checksum : 52
About Village Sign Caches
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This cache belongs to the Village Sign Series, a series of caches based on ornate signs that depict the heritage, history and culture of the villages that put them up (generally on the village green!).
The signs can be made of different materials from fibreglass to wood, from forged steel to stone. They can depict anything from local industry to historical events. The tradition probably started in Norfolk or Suffolk and has now spread across most of the country so we thought we would base a series on them!
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More information, bookmarks and statistics can be found at the Village Signs Website
If anybody would like to expand the Village Sign Series, please do.
I would ask that you request a number for your cache first at www.villagesignseries.co.uk
so we can keep track of the Village Sign numbers and names to avoid duplication.