Note:The finder is solely responsible to take extra precautions when logging this cache. You are advised to wear gloves as an extra protection from infections etc. Please do not log this cache online without first signing the actual log..
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Firstly NO PARKING along Church Lane this is private or in Rectory grounds. Please find roadside parking or use the car park near shops in the village. Please try to find this cache ONLY during daylight hours.
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St Lawrence is a long, towerless church set back from the road and hidden in a garden-like churchyard with its rectory and parish hall. You step through a pretty thatched lychgate which serves as the parish memorial to the local boys lost in the mud and blood of Flanders and France. The path takes you to the east of the church and onto the south side, where the neat graveyard slopes down towards the river. St Lawrence is a curious building. A tall bellcote sits about a third of the way down the nave, level with the porch. As Pevsner notes, it appears to be medieval. The north aisle you see as you walk from the lych gate dates from as recently as 1900, but everything you see from the south side is apparently 13th Century, except that, in reality, the bellcote sits above the medieval western gable; early in the 20th Century, the nave was extended westwards. You step into what is essentially an Edwardian era interior, that period of High Church triumphalism and gravitas between the end of the 19th Century and the First World War. It is the Church of England at its dramatic peak. I hope you will enjoy your visit here and if you have time for a picnic then why not follow the track down to the Fen, however be careful crossing the unmanned railway crossing. once over the railway take the right hand gates into the woods and follow the path to the river where there is seating and scenic views. The cache is fairly easy to find and there is no need to damaged plant life, wearing gloves is advisable.
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Please remember no parking at cache location or this cache will be removed.
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