ABOUT THE CHURCH
The church of St. Mary the Virgin is the parish church of Winchfield. The parish of Winchfield is part of the benefice of Hartley Wintney with Elvetham, Winchfield and Dogmersfield, that is in the Deanery of Odiham and the Diocese of Winchester.
St. Mary's has stood in the village of Winchfield for more than 800 years. Dating from about 1150 it was originally built by the monks of Chertsey Abbey. Many of the original Norman features remain to this day including the “treasure” of St. Mary's – its wonderful Norman Chancel Arch.
NOW TO THE CACHE
The given co-ordinates are for the car park, there used to be a sign to the left of the gate with seven lines of white writing here but this has now been removed so all the information you now need is outside the back gate where there is another sign with black writing (waypoint S2).
Each set of bracketed numbers decodes to a letter. Each set of numbers refer to (row, word, letter).
A = (7,2,1)(1,5,6)(4,3,6)(6,3,4)(5,2,3) plus (4,3,4)(2,1,1)(5,5,2)
B = (3,3,5)(4,1,4)(2,2,1)(3,3,3)(1,4,6)
C = (6,3,2)(1,4,6)(4,3,5)
D = (5,3,2)(4,3,2)(1,4,4)(7,3,2)(4,1,1)
E = (7,2,1)(4,4,1)(2,2,7)(1,3,3)(6,3,4)
F = (2,3,2)(5,1,2)(7,3,4)(3,1,5)
G = (7,3,1)(2,1,1)(5,5,2)
H = (3,1,3)(5,2,3)(6,3,3)(4,3,5)(1,4,6)
The cache can be found at N 51 16.(D-E)(H+C)(A+E) W 000 54.(F-D)(B-G-G)(F-A-E)
 Congratulations to ReggieCat for being FTF!
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