Balantrodach Templar Geocoin

To travel to place/caches with the name Temple.  For example:
GC2D1BQ in Templeton, Cafifornia
GC2KA7M - for some of the 88 Temples in Chita Shikoku  in Aichi Japan
GC1ZTCH - which is the first of 36 caches in Temple Bottom in Southern England
GC1G8XN -  the Temple of Doom in New Hampshire
there are lots more Temple caches
and eventually to return to Temple Midlothian visiting GC10H11 which takes you to the origin of the Balantrodach story,

Pre-Reformation
Historically the Parish of Temple was divided into three portions, the ancient parish of Clerkington, and the Chapelries of Moorfoot and Balantrodach. Balantrodach  was a Chapelry of the Knights Templar.

Knights Templar
In 1127, Hugues de Payens, the first Grand Master met with David I in Scotland, and was granted the lands of Balantrodach. In 1129, the Council of Troyes formally recognized the Order. Balantrodach became their principal Templar seat and Preceptory in Scotland until the suppression of the order between 1307 and 1312. Following 1312 and the Papal Bull (edict) entitled Ad providam, King Edward II of England abolished the Templars in both England and Scotland. According to the edict, all Knight Templar property was to be seized and handed over to the control of the Knights Hospitaller, who had a preceptory at Torphichen. "Legend has it that treasure of the Knights Templar was removed secretly from Paris, to be hidden in Temple. A local legend states: 'Twixt the oak and the elm tree/You will find buried the millions free.' French legends about the Templar treasure apparently also state that the treasure was taken to Scotland, with the knights landing on the Isle of May, the first island they would encounter in the Firth of Forth. Geographically, this would take them to the mouth of the river Esk, which could take them on to Rosslyn..."

Post-Reformation
Following the Reformation the present parish was formed from the three older divisions. In 1618, it took its name Temple from the Preceptory chapel which had by then become the parish Kirk.
In the following centuries Temple became a bustling Agricultural Village, but in recent years it has become a Dormitory Village for nearby Edinburgh.
Information extracted from Wikipedia.