Leigh Park was once famous as the third largest council housing estate in Europe. The first residents arrived in 1949 and by 1960 it boasted 14 schools, 5 churches and a population of 30,000 and rising. The estate has enjoyed a mixed reputation over the years and many of the houses are now privately owned following the Thatcher 'right-to-buy' policy of the 1980s.
Meetings began at the Leigh Park Baptist Church in 1954 in a local house and by 1956, work had started on the building of the Church in this location. Work was completed and the Church opened in 1957. A Sunday school soon followed and in the 1960s the members of the Church played a lead role in the local tenant's association and led a rent strike.
I have chosen to place a micro (with room only for a log and pencil) in a hiding place I hope will escape the worst of destructive muggle attention from the local woodland-users. I'm not sure that anything bigger than this would remain for long.
Please note that geo-tweezers may be required to extract the log if you have broad fingers. I've replaced the pencil in there a few times, but they do go astray, so please bring your own just in case. The woodland can be accessed via footpaths from the adjacent Battens Way and Stockheath Road – both of which have plenty of on-street parking. This cache has been recently 'rebranded' as a Church Micro with the agreement of Sadexploration.
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For full information on how you can expand the Church Micro series by sadexploration please read the Place your own Church Micro page before you contact him at churchmicro@gmail.com.
See also the Church Micro Statistics and Home pages for further information about the series.
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