Church Micro 11582...Staunton Multi-cache

The Church

Originally Staunton was included in the "forest of Corse", the woodland in 1086 being a league long and half a league in breadth. In 1347 Robert de Staunton, then lord of the manor, obtained a grant of a Wednesday market at Staunton and a fair for four days at the feast of St James, but by the 17th century the earlier prosperity of Staunton had disappeared. At the end of the 18th century cider and perry were produced in large quantities at Staunton, but because the soil produced good crops of wheat, beans and barley, the cidermaking industry died out.

The church of Saint James was originally a 12th-century church with short rectangular chancel and aisleless nave, the chancel afterwards being rebuilt and the tower and aisle added in later years. The nave windows are all of 14th-century type, apparently copies or restorations of work of that period, and the tower and spire are of late 14th-century date with a later west window. The church was heavily restored in 1860, when the chancel was rebuilt and the vestry added.

Staunton Court stands immediately to the east of the church and is a picturesque brick and timber building with hipped red-tiled roofs, dating probably from the latter half of the 16th century. It now sits in a business park and the lake beside it is used for fishing.

Staunton has been a civil parish since 1894. In 1931 the village was transferred from Worcestershire to Gloucestershire.

The Cache

To locate the cache, find the answers to the following questions:

Q1: Gravestone with multiple people - How many members of the Bayliss family are buried here? = A

Q2: How old was the youngest when he died? = BC

Q3: How many letters are there in the first name of the oldest? = D

Q4: Bench: How many letters are there in Margy's surname? = E

The cache, a magnetic nano, can be found at:

N 51° 57.(A+B)(E-B-D)(A-B) W 002° 19.(C-E)(A-1)(B+D)

Checksum - A+B+C+D+E=24