The Agent Benevolent Fund Traditional Geocache

I originally planted this cache in an attempt to get more people out to explore this particular route, and experience the sheer tranquillity of this lesser trodden part of the county.  You are searching for a Special Box installation located in a tree on the path which goes between Nalderswood and Parkgate.

Here are some interesting local facts:

This village of Leigh is about three hundred and fifty households situated south-east of Reigate, close to the border with Sussex, has been known at various times as Leghe, Legh, Leygh, The Lea, Lye and Lee. Gatwick airport is 4 miles away. The river Mole is on the eastern edge of the Parish. The name means a clearing in the woods and the area is still surrounded by lovely woodland. The village is not recorded in the Domesday Book and little of historical importance seems to have happened in Leigh. Shellwood Manor which dates from at least the twelfth century belonged to powerful, but absent families or religious organisations. Leigh Place was the home of the Arderne family in the fifteenth century, but when they died out, was also passed round different noble families.