St Budeaux Church is mentioned in the Domesday book of 1086 so there has been a church on this site for almost 1000 years, possibly more. There was a larger church built in 1563 to accommodate an increasing number of worshippers from the local area.
Sir Francis Drake married Mary Newman here on 4th July 1569 and Lady Drake is buried here.
During the English Civil War the forces of Royalist Cornwall took control of St Budeaux and the church was used as a garrison. The church was almost completely destroyed by the end of the war but by 1655 it had been restored.
The large bank to the north of the churchyard is the St Budeaux Bank and was once part of a defendable military road used to deploy troops and equipment to the Palmerston Forts along this ridge of land. With the widening of Crownhill Road and residential development elsewhere very little survives of this military road and the St Budeaux Bank is the best preserved section of these earthworks.
To find the cache, go to the church and look for a blue cast iron plaque to the left of the gate leading to the churchyard. This plaque has ten lines of text on it, name the lines A to J treating dates (such as 1066) as a single word. Count the number of words on each line and equate these to the letters with A being equal to the number of words in the first line .
The cache can be found at N 50 (FxG).(A+H)B(C+J) W 004 (D+H).(A+E)(B-I)(A+J)
The cache is not located in the churchyard or the nearby allotments but is near to both. You are looking for a bison tube.
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