On The Trail Of The Mohicans 3 Traditional Cache
Graculus: As the owner has not responded to my previous log requesting that they check this cache I am archiving it.
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Chris
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On The Trail Of The Mohicans 3
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A park thats worth a visit, so much history if only you look around.
Hanworth has a long long history going back as far as 1066
In 14th century, the manor house of Hanworth was occupied by Sir Nicholas Brembre, who was Mayor of London in 1377 and 1378. Sir Nicholas was hanged at Tyburn in 1387, having been accused of treason.
In 1512 Hanworth came to the Crown, and Henry VIII, who enjoyed hunting on the heath surrounding the village, gave the manor to Anne Boleyn for life. After her execution, the manor returned to the King who held it until his death in 1547, when it passed to his final wife Katherine Parr. The Tudor house still stands near to the cache site by St Georges Church.
If you look across the park you can see Feltham Town Center and then looking across to the right you can get a feel as to the size of Hounslow Heath remeber the heath passes well beyond the the tree lines that you can see and if you know Hounslow the heath went as far as Bath road which was the main artery coaching road, where it is famed that Dick Turpin held up his victims in a later day mugging.
This fact is intresting to all UK geocashes, 1784 General Sir William Roy, the military draughtsman, supervised the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain project. That measured a base line from King's Arbour, across Hounslow Heath passing through Hanworth Park, to Hampton Poor House. This measurement, which earned the General the Copley medal of the Royal Society, was the origin of all subsequent surveys of the United Kingdom, and still forms the basis of the Ordnance Survey maps today and in which most of us with our sat navs are using.
By the end of the 19th century, William Whiteley, of Whiteleys in Bayswater, had bought 200 acres (0.81 km2) of farmland that had previously been Butts and Glebe farms. A lot of the housing estates in Feltham where once large farms that fed convent garden with produce the prison or remand centre in Feltham the prisoners would either be working in the land or basket weaving the very baskets that would take the produce to London.
Hanworth Aerodrome was the first and orginal London Airport operational 1917-1919 and 1929-1947. It was situated in Hanworth Park,
For more History of Hanworth and Hounslow check the Local Chronicle newspaper for Eddie Mendays articles and wikiepedia, there so much more history in this park and area it would take voulumes to write about.
Enjoy the park and the new kids play area and looke at the aircraft climbing frame and thinks about how Zepplins would land in this very park.
This is a nice size for first to find with goodies and geotags and coins to start it off
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