Milton Chapel Traditional Cache
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A traditional click lock cache containing 'stuff'. Cache is not located within the Church grounds. Beware of potential muggle explosion at certain times of the day!
Chalfont St. Giles, with its duck pond, 18th century cottages and ancient High Street is a picturesque village on the edge of the Chilterns.
Among the oldest buildings in the village are Milton's Cottage and Stonewell Farm.
Milton's Cottage:
The only extant home of John Milton (1608-1674), possibly England's greatest poet and Parliamentarian. Having been a prominent member of what would now perhaps be called the Diplomatic Service in revolutionary and Cromwellian times, the Restoration of the Monarchy resulted in John Milton's being victimised by the new government. When added to these difficulties the outbreak of the Black Death in London rendered life there impossible, in July 1665 the by now blind Milton, his wife Elizabeth Minshull and probably his daughter, Deborah, came to Chalfont St Giles, where his Quaker friend Thomas Ellwood had found him "a pretty box" to rent.
An ecclesiastical census was carried out throughout England on 30 March 1851 to record the attendance at all places of worship. These returns are in the Buckinghamshire Record Office and have been published by the Buckinghamshire Record Society (vol 27). The returns for Chalfont St Giles showed the following numbers:
Chalfont St Giles, Primitive
Methodist
72 - Morning General Congregation
50 - Morning Sunday Scholars
122 - Morning Total
106 - Afternoon General Congregation
50 - Afternoon Sunday Scholars
156 - Afternoon Total
160 - Evening General Congregation
160 - Evening Total
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