Originally Posted by MovedtoBolton (Post 526880)

Gamblers Caves are about 1km East of "Spire Farm" at grid ref SD791282.
I spent several summer days up there in the mid 70's. We used to make camp fires and cook beans in the tin. Pushing the boat out or what!

Ian

Originally Posted by Retlaw (Post 526371)

Hi Homegrown.
All the moorland on Moleside and parts of Hambledon were regarded as common land, until one day I was up there a heck of a long time back and there were survey makers all over the place, turns out due to some old law that the land could be claimed by them in the know, and it was, but the present landowners live so far away that I doubt if they would ever know you'd been there. Try the area around what is known as the gambling caves. I used to go up there in the late 1940's and early 1950's with a dog and a gun, every weekend there would be blokes tossing coins, six blokes would be on lookout for the police and if they saw any one who looked suspicious they would all scatter. They never bothered about me being there. There must be loads of money and other stuff in the ground around there.
Retlaw

Originally Posted by z900guy (Post 630447)

Hi Retlaw
No such thing as common land Im afraid , that land is owned by the water board and used as a gathering ground for the reservoirs and leased for grazing to local farmers .
My family own Higher Heys farm bordering Hambledon and with Kings Highway running through Warmden Quarry on my fathers land.
However Im also a detector fan , or was 25 yrs ago , and searched Gamblers caves and found loads of old coins and bullets but nothing of value

Chris

Originally Posted by Retlaw (Post 630464)

Hi Chris
Its some years since I was at that farm, the barn was on fire, the hydrant in the field was useless, to many people using water down in Accy, we had to relay water from heights farm, further down the main, that one is also in the field just East of the farm.

We used to get our milk from the farmer who owned it then.
Can't remember his name.
Some of those bullets you found could have been mine.

Retlaw

Originally Posted by z900guy (Post 630447)

Hi Retlaw
No such thing as common land Im afraid , that land is owned by the water board and used as a gathering ground for the reservoirs and leased for grazing to local farmers .
My family own Higher Heys farm bordering Hambledon and with Kings Highway running through Warmden Quarry on my fathers land.
However Im also a detector fan , or was 25 yrs ago , and searched Gamblers caves and found loads of old coins and bullets but nothing of value

Chris

Originally Posted by disco (Post 1156677)

Just thought some of you may be interested to know.
I was metal detecting on the Kings Highway the other day. I found a James The first silver sixpence (Hammered Coin) dated 1605near Higher Heys Farm. I also found loads of bullets