This is a cache hidden near the beautiful church of St Stephen. The church is located alongside the ancient and historically important Watling Street where it enters the city of St Albans. This church is one of three that were used to prepare pilgrims on their way to St Albans abbey.
You will have to find some simple information from the churchyard in order to determine the coordinates of the cache. You do not need to go into the church itself.
Please close the container carefully and replace exactly as found. There is space for swaps and trackables but if you remove something then please replace it with an item of equivalent value :-)
St. Stephen’s is a beautiful old parish church, founded in 948 A.D. The Anglo Saxon building was small, probably divided into two rooms and without a tower. Little remains of this building, but the small window, deep set in rough masonry, just by the door to the Parish Centre has been dated to around 950 A.D. The building today is largely medieval, but it was sympathetically restored from a near ruinous condition in the 1860s. The spire, replacing a “Hertfordshire spike” on the tower, dates from this time. The pews and ornamental woodwork are Victorian, and the attractive pulpit and canopy date from 1936. The eagle lectern is a copy of a much earlier famous one which until recently stood in its place. There is a leaflet in the church giving details of the history of the early much travelled and plundered lectern.
TRF’s bench: born A B C D
HRM’s memorial: born Christmas day E F G H
Hamlet’s friend’s bench: died, international dialling code: I J
C D x G H x I J = V W X Y Z
The cache is at the following location:
North 51 deg 44 . V (X + Y - V) Y
West 00 deg 20 . Z Z (W - Y)
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