St Peter & St Paul, Newchurch
The church was started in the 1200's with the tower being started about 1410 however because the land around is reclaimed silt, the tower started leaning when the second stage had been completed. Buttresses were added to stabilise this and the top of the tower was added in 1480 this was built perpendicular to the ground. Because of this the church tower has a major bend in the middle with the lower two sections leaning to the west.
The village is in quite an isolated position, and was a centre for the sheep and wool trade . Because of this owlers would frequent the area to obtain the wool for its illegal export. It is likely as with most of the other Marsh churches, that smuggled goods would have been stored in the church, the most likely gang to do this would have been the Aldington Gang who were based at Aldington just inland from Newchurch
To find this cache you need to find only one grave with these peoples names
Kate Milton 188A - 19B1
Reginald Stephen 190C - 200D
Winifred Kate Wimble 19EF - 200G
All of Norwood Farm
N51 DA.(B-A)(C)(A+A) E000 (G-E)G.F(G+A)(B-E-E)
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