Jack Spratt's Clock
The cache is placed along the path leading to the church.
The church originally stood in the grounds of the Saxon manor house.
Wootton came into the hands of the de la Riviere family after 1281 and the list of vicars dates from 1321.
Rebuilding took place in 1860 and a famous clock was built by villager Jack Spratt to commemorate the coronation of George V in 1911, using scrap iron, brass weights, gun metal and brass pipes. The clock has three faces - on one the numbers are replaced with GLORY BE TO GOD".
The Great War had a devastating effect on the population. There is a memorial on the north wall.
The bells were relined and reinstalled in December 1999.
There is car parking near GZ
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If anybody would like to expand this series please do. We would just ask that you contact sadexploration first so he can keep track of the Church numbers and names and to avoid duplication.
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CACHE DETAILS
Small tube with string attached