Brentingby Post Box Traditional Cache
Crafty Foxes: It is reported that birds are nesting in the post box so we are disabling the cache so they are not disturbed.
Crafty Foxes
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There is a decided lack of caches in this corner of Leicestershire so here are a few cache and dashes to help alleviate this.
This cache is a nano with a magnet in the bottom - please ensure you replace it carefully for those who come after you.
It is not required for you to move, disturb or climb anything to locate this cache, the hint should make it very obvious.
Important Note: The log book is quite tight inside the container and will probably get tighter as the roll is used more - it is therefore recommended that you bring along a pair of tweezers.
The Village
Brentingby is a quiet hamlet only two miles from the busy market town of Melton Mowbray. The area is rich in history, with most of the grassland unploughed for centuries, overlying ancient ridge and furrow field systems, together with a Saxon water mill site. There has been a manor house here since mediaeval times, but the current farmhouse dates from the seventeenth century.
The course of the Melton to Oakham canal, abandoned in the middle of the nineteenth century, with the expansion of the railway network, runs through the farm. Contemporary development in the form of the Melton Mowbray Flood Alleviation Scheme - a flood storage scheme - is the twenty-first century’s contribution to the landscape’s evolution.
The Church
St Mary's Church (now a private dwelling) was built in the 14th century, and remodelled in 1660. The remodelling consisted of shortening the east end and building a new east wall, replacing the nave windows, rebuilding the roof to give it a steeper pitch, and blocking the north door. The church was declared redundant in the 1950s, following which its condition deteriorated. In 1972–73 a trial excavation was undertaken. In 1977 the body of the church was partly demolished and converted into a house, leaving the tower standing. The tower has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
The Farm
The village farm covers just over 300 acres, extending along the River Eye to the east of Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire. It is a traditional mixed farm, which provides a wide range of habitats for wildlife and has preserved the features so characteristic of the Leicestershire landscape – ridge and furrow grassland and a rich hedgerow network.
Field margins are left as rough grassland to encourage insects and small mammal populations; these in turn support predators including barn owls and kestrels. Other areas of land are managed to encourage species such as skylark, yellowhammers, meadow pipits and tree sparrows. In excess of 90 acres of permanent pasture is managed without fertilisers, to encourage biodiversity in the hay meadows and on the floodplain.
The farm has a small herd of 60 pedigree Holstein milking cows and around 40 dairy heifers and calves. A flock of 300 ewes grazes much of the pasture and lambs are sold through the local livestock market at Melton Mowbray. It also sells some lamb, as well as beef from their Aberdeen-Angus cross cattle, through its meat sales enterprise. Its small acreage of cereals provides straw and grain for the animals.
Without grazing, the historic field systems will be lost, along with the species that depend upon the extensive grazing ecosystem - as has happened on a vast scale across the country, particularly since the 1940’s. The farm therefore try and work with, not against this heritage to produce milk, meat and grain.
The River Eye, (a Site of Special Scientific Interest) runs through the western end of the farm and supports a large variety of wildlife including a rich flora, dragon and damselflies, wildfowl and other beautiful birds such as reed buntings, snipe and kingfishers.
Additional Hints
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