This is a letter box cache and is NOT AT THE PUBLISHED COORDINATES. In order to locate the cache, you need to project 85m on a bearing of 82 degrees (almost due East). Go to that location. You will see a small set of stone stairs. The cache is tucked in a small hole at the bottom of them. Please do not remove the stamp within the cache.
The parish church of St Mary the Virgin has been a continuous place of Christian worship for over eight hundred year and probably succeeded an earlier Saxon church on the same site. St. Mary's was mentioned in the Domesday Survey in 1086 as a 'church in Bixle'. The church's most distinctive feature is probably the unusual spire which resembles an octagonal cone balanced precariously on top of a truncated pyramid.
The current interior of the church dates from 1883, following a make-over by the Victorians. This sees a raised altar some distance from the people, a formal choir space copied from the great English cathedrals and the congregation seated beyond the choir in ranks of pews. The whole effect was meant to enable the formal ritual which was characteristic of the high church revival in England in the latter part of the 19th century.
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