This geocache was established as part of a 2015 parish weekend event on the theme of ‘Hidden Treasures’, based on psalm 139. The congregation came together to learn new things about each other and our community, and the children became pirates and went on a treasure hunt. We thought we would hide some ‘treasure’ ourselves so that other pirates could come and find it……
There has been a church on the site of St Bartholomew’s since the reign of Henry II in the 12th Century, and the 13th Century Bell Tower still exists. The current church was rebuilt in 1871 to better serve the growing town of Haslemere. The church itself holds its own hidden treasures, including a stain glass window designed by the William Morris workshop to commemorate Alfred Lord Tennyson who lived nearby, and in the church yard a memorial to Sir Robert Hunter, founder of the National Trust who also lived in Haslemere.
Haslemere is a lovely market town, surrounded by beautiful countryside and at one end of the Haslemere-Limpsfield Greensand Way. The Church itself is on the Greensand Way route.
Cache placed with the kind permission of St Bartholomew's Church, Haslemere.