Church Micro 7083...Chesham Broadway Baptist Multi-Cache

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Hidden : 1/6/2015
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

One of a series of ten church micros placed in Chesham. Please note that you may wish to find the information for Chesham URC CM7084 before relocating towards GZ.

One of the four Bs for which Chesham is known is Baptist (along with beer, boots and brushes) . In fact Chesham has a long history of non conformism dating back to the Lollards and beyond.
The current buildings of Broadway Baptist Church date back over 100 years to 1901. It is over 300 years since a Baptist congregation began to meet in the locality, borne initially out of a joint congregation of people from Chesham, Berkhamsted and Tring. An old memorial stone built into the current building indicates that the first meeting place, known as the General Baptist Chapel, was built in 1712. This old chapel stood further back in the Broadway than the current chapel. The pews were enclosed, and furnished and an organ was included.
As far back as 1878, the matter of having a new meeting place was brought forward. By 1897 two thirds of the money had been raised by the members but a new schoolroom proved a more pressing need and so with the addition of some new land, this was accomplished, inevitably depleting the funds needed for a new chapel. Despite this by 1901 half the funds for the new chapel had been newly raised. By demolishing the old chapel and by purchasing the old Co-operative Society building, room was created for the new chapel, now standing four-square in the Broadway and much nearer to the road than the old chapel. During the rebuilding use was made of the previously built schoolroom for use by the whole church.




The cache is hidden at N51 42.aa(b/3) W000 37.cde
Where the foundation stones were laid on April 11th 1ba1
c is the initial of Clarke , converted in the usual way a=1 etc
d is the initial of 'Cayford' , converted in the usual way a=1 etc.
e is the number of letters in the Rev Robert surname.
The cache is hidden within a natural container, tweezers will be required. Please ensure no access points are blocked. Not suitable for cache and dash .

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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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)


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