Church Micro 5980...Canterbury - St Martin's Multi-cache
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Church Micro 5980...Canterbury - St Martin's
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Welcome to St Martin's Church for this short multicache consisting of 5 stages (4 clues and the final cache site). You will need to wander around the church yard to visit some graves to get the co-ordinates of the final cache, which is placed outside of the Church grounds. This cache should take you no longer than half an hour to complete. The cache is not at the published location.
CONGRATULATIONS TO MANKYBADGER ON BEING THE FIRST TO FIND. St Martin’s is the oldest church in continuous use in the English-speaking world. The oldest part of St Martin’s church was built during the Roman occupation of Britain. It is uncertain whether at first the building was a church, a mausoleum, or something else. Bertha was a Christian princess from Tours, in France. About AD 580 she married Ethelbert of Kent, who was a pagan Anglo-Saxon. Ethelbert restored St Martin’s for her, and she prayed here regularly. Ethelbert became king of Kent and ‘over-king’ of all the kingdoms northwards to the River Humber (200 miles to the north). Needing more space, they extended St Martin’s to nearly its present size, using Roman building methods and reusing some Roman bricks. The largest part of the building (the nave) was the first Anglo Saxon structure made of mortared brick and stone instead of wood. Ethelbert soon granted Augustine more land in Canterbury, where he founded the Abbey and the Cathedral. Augustine became the first Archbishop of Canterbury. He died in AD 604 and was buried in the Abbey. The east end of St Martin’s church was extended in the 12-13th centuries and substantially altered in the 19th century. The church tower was added in the 14th century. It has three bells, the largest of which was made in 1393. St Martin’s remains in use for Christian worship, prayer and mission, as it has done ever since Augustine arrived in the 6th century. CACHE/WAYPOINT DETAILS: Stage 1 - N51 16.682 E 001 05.589 What number should you call for the Rector? 0K227 7A8072 Stage 2 - N51 16.702 E001 05.636 Lieutenant G D O Maclear MC of the 29th Garhwal Rifles died on the 2B January 1919 aged 31 Stage 3 - N51 16.701 E001 05.654 Mary Tourtel was a writer and illustrator, most famous for creating Rupert the Bear. Her grave can be found at these co-ordinates. She died 15th March 194C aged D4 years. Stage 4 - N51 16.677 E001 05.622 Sophia Louisa Austen died E3 May F8GH Final Cache location is N51 16 D ((H-G)-F) B E001 05.(A-K)CE ************************************** 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 *************************************
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Frrx jvguva naq lbh funyy svaq.