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Church Micro 1269...Singleton Multi-cache

Hidden : 11/15/2013
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

This is a resurrected Church Micro, at the Church of The Blessed Virgin Mary, Singleton.

Please do NOT attempt this cache at night due to the sensitivity of the site.


The church has Anglo-Saxon nave walls and a massive square tower. The early 11th century tower may have been the original nave with a small chancel.  The aisles were added later. This was the central church of the Hundred of Singleton, a Saxon administrative grouping of parishes. The tower has three Saxon windows and a Saxon doorway leading into thin air high up in the nave, showing that there was once an upper room above the nave. It is likely that the priests for the churches in the Hundred would have lived in this room. The pews are from the Tudor period.

The cache is not at the given co-ordinates.  To find the cache, find the following information within the churchyard.

The given co-ordinates take you to an OSBM Benchmark at the foot of the Church Tower. The number is 10ABC.

Take a walk around the graveyard to find the following headstones.  First find the grave of a father and son, both named Donald George Penny.  The difference in their ages when they died was 4D years.

Next find Philip Norrell who was loved and respected in the village he served for EF years.

Last, find Pansy E Wells. Her birth and death dates are 191G – 1HJ8.

The cache can be found at –

N50 54.(B-A)(C-B)D   W000 4E.FG(H-J)

The cache is a double-potted micro so please bring your own pen/pencil.

 

If anybody would like to expand to this series please do, I would just ask that you could let Sadexploration know first at churchmicro@gmail.com 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)

Pnoyr-gvrq nobhg 4 srrg hc va fznyy gerr

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)