Church Micro 4514... Tring- St Martha's Multi-cache
Church Micro 4514... Tring- St Martha's
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A simple offset multi in the church micro series
Tring is in west Hertfordshire, adjacent to the Buckinghamshire border, at a low point in the Chiltern Hills known as the 'Tring Gap'. This has been used as a crossing point since ancient times, being at the junction of the Icknield Way and under the Romans Akeman Street, the major Roman road linking London to Cirencester. It is transected east and west by the ancient earthwork called Grim's Dyke. It is located at the summit level of the Grand Union Canal and both the canal and railway pass through in deep cuttings. Tring railway cutting is 4 km (2.5 mi) long and an average of 12 m (39 ft) deep
St Martha’s Methodist church was originally built as a daughter church to St. Peter & St. Pauls, the Parish Church in the Centre of Tring, but was never completed or concecrated. The wooden structure was added about the turn of the century and a porch in the early 1960's. The C of E membership was low in the 1970's, and use of the building was offered to the Methodist Congregation and as the original Methodist Chapel in Langdon Street was suffering from dry rot, is was decided to abandon that building, and the money from the proceeds of the sale of the land was put towards the cost of a new joint Anglican/Methodist Church Hall, situated to the rear of the Parish Church
To find the cache, park near to or walk to the coordinates given and look around you.
The cache can be found at
N51 47.jkl W00 40.jrk
where
using the usual A=1 formula
j is the value of the first letter of the street on which the church is situated
l is the number of letters in the ‘royal’ street,
r is the number of letters in the first two words in the name of the ‘hot’ house MINUS 1
and k can be found on the no parking sign k30am – 630pm
The cache is a short walk away and it can be busy early morning and evening
Congratulations to founditnat for FTF
“If anybody would like to expand to this series please do, I would just ask that you could let Sadexploration know first so he can keep track of the Church numbers and names to avoid duplication. There is also a Church Micro Stats & Information page found via the Bookmark list”
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Jvguva.
Frnepu gur nern gb gur evtug bs gur obk (abg va be ba vg)