This series features12 caches about items of historic interest to Newton Abbot and the surrounding communities. Two caches will be published every month from June to November 2019 and a 13th event cache on December 11th will complete the Bakers Dozen. Anyone attending the event cache on December 11th who brings proof that they have found all 12 Samuel Baker Series caches will recieve a certificate of achievement.
Sir Samuel White Baker (8 June 1821 – 30 December 1893)
A Newton Abbot resident and discoverer of Lake Albert as an explorer of the Nile and interior of central Africa.
Together with his wife Florence, Baker retired to Sandford Orleigh in 1874.
He would describe the view looking down the Teign Estuary as one which reminded him of The Nile.
The house, built by industrialist George Templer in the 1830s, featured a chimney overmantel compiled of several historic oak carvings.
With the property redeveloped into flats the Sandford Orleigh Screen, as ithe chimney piece is known, is now housed in Newton Abbot Town and GWR Museum.
The SamuelBaker Geocache Series will feature 12 items of historic interest to Newton Abbot and the surrounding communities.
This cache, however, is about "The Devonmoor Pottery". I have sited the container close to the original pottery and just across the road you can see one of the original kilns.
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