The cache is not at the published co-ordinates, although it is not too far away. They take you to the sign, which is by the church, and you can park there too. You need to solve this puzzle to find out where it is located. Click here.
A bit about the village:
Aston Ingham is in south-eastern Herefordshire, although the South edge of it is in Gloucestershire. I live in the Gloucestershire bit. There is no pub or shop, just a church and a village hall.
The village was called Estune in the Domesday Book (1086), for the Old English ēast tūn, meaning "eastern farmstead or estate". In 1242, it was Estun Ingan for the Ingan family who had a manor there at the time.
At the time of the 11th-century Domesday Book, Aston was located in Bromsash Hundred in Herefordshire, with 23 households. There was one lord's plough team, eight men's plough teams, and one mill. In 1066, the lord was Edward the Confessor. For about one hundred years, the land was attached to the barony of Cormeiles. The land was then sold to the Ingayn (or Ingan) family, who added their name to the village name.
In 1868, Aston Ingham was defined as a village, parish, and township in the Greytree hundred on the border of the Forest of Dean. The parish church of St John the Baptist was first built in the 13th century.
The history goes back further than the Domesday Book though. Here is an extract from ‘The History of Aston Ingham’ by Margaret Watson and Peggy Laws:
Some hundreds of years BC a race of people known as Silures came to Britain from the continent. They were a skilful race and, having worked their way across Britain and discovered the rich mineral deposits in the great forests of the West, decided to settle there. One of the Colonies founded by the Silures was at Aricon, a place British tribes had called Rose-town from the red sandstone rocks and soil. The Silures over-ran and intermarried with the existing British tribes, the earliest name of the tribe in this neighbourhood being Erching, which by corruption through the speech of the Silures became Aricon.
When the Romans conquered Britain they managed to capture Aricon and re-named it Ariconium. To the east of Ariconium the Romans built a small garrison which they named Estune or East-town. The Romans retained an uneasy occupation of Great Britain for another 300 years but when finally they withdrew there was much fighting and jostling for kingships and territory. Ariconium was demolished and a new rose-town, or Ross, was built nearer to the River Wye. Estune, however, remained and no doubt was a small village busy about its own business of wresting a living deep in what was then still the forest. In the Domesday Book Estune is described as consisting of two hides of land, which is somewhere around 240 acres.
Following the crowning of William, Duke of Normandy, in 1066 the land in Estune, now known as Eston, was given to Ansfid de Cormeiles and attached to the barony of Cormeiles for about a century. When the Cormeiles family could no longer bear the strain of heavy taxation and duty to supply men and materials to the King, Eston was sold to the Ingayns. This family, following a common practice, promptly added their name to Eston and so we have Eston Ingayn or Aston Ingham as it finally became known.
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