This is a remote church, down a small lane, right next to a farm and houses. Please therefore respect the neighbours and do not visit after dark, and park sensibly. The co-ordinates listed are for the first question. The cache is not in the grounds of the church.
The Church
Pauntley is well-known as the probable birthplace of Dick Whittington, whose family owned the manor house here, Pauntley Court, at the time of his birth in the 14th century. Adjacent to the Court is the church of St John the Evangelist with its fine Norman south doorway, a chevron arch and Romanesque sculpture by the Dymock School sculptors.
Set amongst fields with no village nearby, the Church looks as though it has never witnessed ambition or conflict, but this is the Church where Dick Whittington would have been christened and attended services in his youth (yes, he was a real person, not just a story book character) and which bears the scars of musket fire, damage inflicted during a Civil War skirmish between Royalists and Roundheads.
The Cache
To locate the cache, find the answers to the following questions:
Q1: Bench 1 - In which year did Mrs Bowkett donate this bench? = ABCD
Q2: Bench 2 - How many letters in the first name of the man that donated this bench in 1991? = E
Q3: How many letters in his surname? = F
The cache, a camo bison, can be found at:
N 51° 57.(D-A)(C-2)(B-D) W 002° 22.(F-E-A)(B-E)(A+F)
Checksum - A+B+C+D+E+F=33
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