GC16GA7 Hidden Chocolates and Corrected Castles (Multi-cache) in East Midlands, United Kingdom created by The Potters

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GC16GA7 ▼

A cache by The Potters Message this owner

Hidden : 10/28/2007

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Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

The cache is not hidden at the above location. This will take you to the centre of the village where there is plenty of parking. The above co-ordinates are not the location of the cache.

The Castle

A Norman castle once stood on the rising ground to the east of the town and was rebuilt in 1321 by the Baron de Beaumont whose family lived here for two centuries. King Edward II granted Folkingham a Thursday market and also seven annual fairs and Edward III stayed in the castle in 1331.

House of Correction

Although Folkingham is now merely a large village, it was once an important place in Lincolnshire because it was the seat of the Quarter Sessions, the higher court that dispensed justice for the area, which is why the austere House of Correction, or prison, was built here. The present building dates back to 1808 and replaced an earlier one that stood in the village Market Place, and consists of the original 19th century gateway and governor's house, faced in cold stone and with arched windows half blanked off and half grilled. The prison was modified over the next forty years and contained several punishment devices including a tread wheel, whipping post, stocks and a hand crank. It was closed in 1878 but was taken over in recent years by the Landmark Trust, an organisation that seeks out unusual and empty buildings throughout Britain and turns them into holiday accommodation with all mod cons and that is what has happened with the House of Correction that became a favourite stopping place with visitors from America and Japan. The stocks and whipping post have been preserved in the village church. See (visit link) for more information.

Hansen's Cholcolate House

Hansen's has been operating out of Folkingham since 2005 (moving from Billingborough) providing homemade chocolate and various other sweets. The property which Hansen occupies was once a public house in 2003 called the Whipping Post, named for the fact a Whipping Post stood outside the property.

This is our favourite chocolate place, and although you do not need to visit it to complete the cache we highly recommend stopping for a post cache hot chocolate!!

Original Cache Contents

FTF Badge
Coloured Pencils
Notebook
Torch
Marbles
Picture Frame
Small Purse
Bubbles
SSGT Clark TB
Logbook + Pencil

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)