About Village Sign Caches
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This cache belongs to the Village Sign Series, a series of caches based on ornate signs that depict the heritage, history and culture of the villages that put them up (generally on the village green!).
The signs can be made of different materials from fibreglass to wood, from forged steel to stone. They can depict anything from local industry to historical events. The tradition probably started in Norfolk or Suffolk and has now spread across most of the country so we thought we would base a series on them!
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More information, bookmarks and statistics can be found at the Village Signs Website
If anybody would like to expand the Village Sign Series, please do.
I would ask that you request a number for your cache first at www.villagesignseries.co.uk
so we can keep track of the Village Sign numbers and names to avoid duplication.
Somersham is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England. Somersham lies approximately 9 miles (14 km) east of Huntingdon and 4 miles (6 km) north of St Ives. Somersham is situated within Huntingdonshire which is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire as well as being a historic county of England.
There has been a settlement in this corner of the country for at least 2,500 years and probably much longer than that. The village may not be full of ancient buildings, but it possesses a rich heritage of recorded history. Somersham lies on the Greenwich meridian line. There is a marker on the pavement in the High Street denoting the location of the October 1884 Greenwich Prime Zero meridian line.
There was once a railway station at Somersham connecting it to the towns of March and St Ives, as well as a short branch to Ramsey.
The cache is a short walk from the village sign so please do not go climbing all over it!
The cache is NOT at the published coordinates. Visit the coordinates to find the clues to find the cache.
This cache is a black/camo 30ml tube
On the sign there is a plaque with a date. ABth CD EFGH. where CD is the month number, ie November would be 11, April would be 04.
The cache can be found at N 52° 22.(A+B)(A+B)(A+E) W 000° 00.(B+D)(B+C)(A+H)