Church Micro 173 - Guestling Traditional Geocache
GCHarribo: I will unfortunately have to archive this as I’m going to uni and can’t replace it
Church Micro 173 - Guestling
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Number 173 in the ‘Church Micro’ series.
This is one of a set of three caches that lead to a bonus cache, GC1CX0C - Soay Far Soay Good. Two parts of the co-ordinates can be found in the lid of each cache container.
There is plenty of parking in the car park beside the church.
The Parish Church of St. Lawrence, Guestling, East Sussex.
Guestling, but no church, is mentioned in the Domesday Survey. It is recorded, however, that in the time of Count Robert of Eu (1070-1090), Geoffrey, brother of Canon Hugh of St-Mary-in-the-Castle, Hastings, gave Guestling church to the prebend founded by Walter fitz Lambert of Scotney, under whom the manor of Guestling was held. The W tower, which was added to an existing nave, was probably erected soon after that event, c.1090-1100, and the N aisle followed shortly after. It has been suggested that the Chapel of St John was erected by John of Guestling, a Justiciar, c.1200. The church suffered from a restoration of 1886 and a fire on 25 March 1890.
Olive Brockwell, the most famous of all nannies, who was immortalised as ' Alice' by A.A. Milne (Changing guards at Buckingham Palace , Christopher Robin went down with Alice ) is buried in the churchyard.
Please take a few minutes to look round this lovely litte church and enjoy the scenery. You are very welcome to sign the visotors book and add your comments to the survey.
The cache is a camouflaged 35mm film canister with a micro certificate for the First to Find. Note: Please do not search amongst the graves, the cache is not within the churchyard.
If anybody would like to expand the Church Micro series please do, we would just ask that you could let Sadexploration know first, so they can keep track of the Church numbers and names, to avoid duplication.
Additional Hints
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Gbc bs byq cbfg arkg gb arj tngr.