Church Micro 581…Camerton Traditional Geocache
Church Micro 581…Camerton
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The cache is a small screw top container in a cammo bag
There is limited parking just off the main road through Camerton along the side of the lane that leads to the church. To access this cache you will have to walk through the church grounds and head to the far left corner where you will find a stile go through this stile and turn right.
The Church of St Peter at Camerton Park in Camerton, Somerset, England was built in the 15th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building.
From 1800 to 1839 the vicar was the archaeologist John Skinner. He excavated numerous antiquities, especially barrows, such as those at Priddy and Stoney Littleton; and he made visits for antiquarian purposes to many places. His journals (1803-34), published many years after his death, are preserved at the British Library. Skinner committed suicide by shooting himself in 1839, despite which he may have been buried in consecrated ground at Camerton.
In the early 19th century the church still had a medieval nave and chancel which Skinner started to extend. This was revised in 1892 by the family of John Jarrett, the lord of the manor. The north chapel was built in 1638 by the Carew family and still remains.
There are several monuments to members of the Carew and Lansdown families within the church.
The parish is part of the benefice of Timsbury with Priston, Camerton and Dunkerton within the deanery of Midsomer Norton
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