2000 Years A Village Multi-Cache
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Short Description
A cache designed to celebrate the Village of Caister-on-Sea by a walk around some of it’s sights ancient and modern. The walk is about 2.25 miles but I would advise allowing a couple of hours overall to appreciate some of the places you will meet on the way. There is a public carpark near the headline co-ordinates. Pay and Display in the summer months. The clues are designed to be easy to solve as we want everbody to complete the walk.
Long Description
A nice easy start for you. At the headline co-ordinates you are standing at the sea wall that prevents Caister-on-Sea becoming Caister-in-the Sea. As you look at the sea lapping on the beach a few yards away imagine the fact that this point was once about a mile inland. When the sand levels on the beach are low the remains of some buildings that have been claimed by the sea can be seen. Including the Manor House Hotel a little to the north that was lost to the North Sea in the 1940s.
There are A statues of lions on plinths. The lions used to mark the entrance to the Manor House Hotel. If you need to dial 999 you are phoning from Box BC.
On your way to N52 38.77A E 001 44.BC8 if you walk along the seawall (be careful not to fall off!) or the beach you can see EF wind turbines on Scroby Sands out to sea. This sandbank has wrecked many ships over the years. These turbines displace the emission of over ND 000 tonnes of carbon dioxide. The fourth figure of the visitor centre telephone number is G and the sixth figure is H.
After a good look at the turbines ( I go this way often and rarely see them all turning at the same time) its off to N 52 38.DDG E 001 44.FHE. In this vicinity look for TH?P11 where the ? is number J. Also note the number of lives saved by the lifeboat Shirley Jean Adye 5K.
At the next point N 52 38.HBK E 001 44.FBD you have to pay for parking between 1 April and 3L September. Do check this one and don’t just guess! 24/6/14 addendum. For several years this sign read 31 September but recently the council have decided to correct it. By putting a bit of sticky tape over the offending "1" and writing "0" on it!!!!! Either number would be fine to use as the solution to this question.
Right! Now off along the road past some of the older cottages in Caister. There’s something odd about the doors here, nowhere more so than at Number 58. At number 100 the pair of little semidetached cottages, which always remind me of a weather house, used to be almshouses (The Widows Homes) and were built by the Lord of the Manor in 1856 for £300 (if only!). At N 52 3H.HCJ E 001 4E.HEL April Cottage is number M7.
At N 52 3H.HNJ E 001 4M.NGF you are looking for a blue plaque denoting one of Caister’s residents, one of the early prison reformers. The third figure of the second date is P. Remember the name, you may need it later.
Off to the oldest location on our walk N 52 3K.FFF E 001 4M.BCA where a thousand years or more ago you could look across a huge estuary, where Great Yarmouth now sits, to the fort of Burgh Castle 6 miles away on the other side. This is your Lloyd Grossman moment. Not so much, “whose house was this?” but how many rooms did it have? Rooms = Q. 24/6/14 addendum. Use the number mentioned on the notice board for your answer. I get 1 less when I count the rooms in the actual ruin itself. I suspect that some ancient equivalent of Sarah Beeny thought it would be a good idea to let a little more light into the place and make it more spacious by knocking through one of the interior walls at a later date ;)
Off to the church now and N 52 3H.KQM E 001 4M.PMC takes you to the porch. This is generally open during the day, even if the church isn’t, and is probably one of the sweetest I have seen with it’s little stained glass windows and memorials all squeezed into a tiny space. Have a look and then wander the graveyard in search of the Prison Reformer’s grave. I said remember the name! She died on October RS.
Careful crossing the road and then off to N 52 MK.FRA E 001 PM.PSQ the site of a memorial to some of Caister’s bravest men. The number who lost their lives = T.
Retrace your steps back towards the centre of the village and turn left onto School Lane a few yards after exiting the cemetry. Follow the path as it winds between the buildings, crossing a few roads eventually ending up at the beach. This is possibly the oldest footpath in the village and was once a private route from the Manor House to the Church. The next two waypoints lie on this route. Another Lion and a couple of dates are at N 52 EH.TNN E 001 JE.QHT. The last figure of the second date is U.
Continue on following the footpath/passageways to N 52 MH.TUA E 001 PM.TQR.
If you’ve been avidly reading the information at previous sites you may realise how this pub got it’s name. V = total letters in the last 2 words of name.
Well done if you’ve got this far. That celebratory drink can come later. Now it’s off to find the cache at
N 52 MT.RBV E 001 PM.TUN.
After finding the cache you can wander back to the start enjoying the views and hopefully some sunshine on the way.
Congratulations to GEFFJAY on a hard earned FTF
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Qrsvavgryl abg Svefg Pynff