Oh my Lyveden you have no roof....

Northamptonshire Roof Appreciation Society Day Out

Saturday 28th May 2011

Please please please, team Shiltonpig are pleading, begging and asking you for your money. No don't worry you don't need to phone the police out of fear this is some geocaching fraud, team Shiltonpig believe there is a serious need here in the county of Northamptonshire! Roofs, they have no roofs! This is terrible.In fact this particular spot in Lyveden this house has never had a roof, and its been built for 406 years! So if you feel like donating to the new team Shiltonpig charity please let us know! This house really is in the middle of nowhere, you need

A House in the shape of a cross?surely not!

a sat nav and a full tank of petrol just to drive up the road to the house. It is worth noting that this house is owned by the National Trust and the woman on reception was brilliant, she clearly had seen kids before and loved Josh, even giving him his own sticker. This house has it all, a sad story, treason, religion and even a geocache nearby in which to continue our tale of caching in the Corby area. So lets take you back to the early 17th century, Thomas Tresham was a Catholic and for many many years he had been persecuted for his beliefs. Despite all this persecution he somehow managed to find the time to have a son and a wife

Pretty garden

 , but if there is one thing you can do to annoy the local protestant population is build a house which is full of expressions of your faith. For example as you might be able to tell from the photos the house is in the shape of a cross. Now Thomas sadly died in 1605 and the estate was passed to his son. However it was his son that was to go on and become more famous in English history, in fact his son and the events that he became involved in, is celebrated every year...on November 5th. Yes as the rhyme says "remember remember the 5th of November, gunpowder, treason and plot. I see no reason why gunpowder treason, should be forgot!"

Sting sung about this field

Yes folks Francis Tresham, was so narked off that his family had been persecuted so much that he joined in with Guy Fawkes and decided to blow up the houses of Parliament. You may know that they failed, but the result was father and son both died in the same year 1605. The house was just built but still no roof. If you would like to know more please click on the linky poo here. Of course skip a few hundred years later and team Shiltonpig were here on the trail of a cache...thankfully we were not being persecuted and you will be glad to know we are not involved in any plot to overthrow David, that bloke that lives at number 10. The cache is about 0.2

Tree wanted to swallow little Josh

 miles away on a path rather imaginatively titled "Lyveden Way". The cache like the house was in the middle of nowhere, but true to normal geocaching style when we arrived at the cache site, there was some walkers kicking around the picnic table. We made strange noises until we scared them to go, which left us to find the cache. There was only one obvious place, so thats why we looked everywhere but there and then returned to the obvious place, only to find the cache there. The heavens opened up for a brief moment and then by some spooky magic quickly stopped. After all this caching and roof finding there was only one thing to do...eat!