Lytch Gate #4 - Middleton Tyas Traditional Cache
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Lytch Gate #4 - Middleton Tyas
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St Michael and All Angels, Middleton Tyas lies around half a mile to the east of the present day village centre, at the end of a no-through road. There is plenty of parking immediately to the north of the church. The cache, a 35mm canister, is located a short stroll away, although is within view of the Lytch Gate. Please bring your own pen.
The Lytch Gate series of caches are each, unsurprisingly, located in close proximity to a church or cemetery Lytch Gate. For more information on Lytch Gates refer to the details given for “GC1CP1N Lytch Gate #1 – Stanwick St John”.
A few specifics:
The approach to the church is flanked by an avenue of Lime Trees, with those on the right hand side planted on an embankment. This was formed from the spoil from a series of copper mines located in what are now the fields immediately to the west of the churchyard. The importance and scale of mining in the 18th Century can be guessed at when you learn that there were once 20 public houses in the village!
To the south west of the cache site you can see remains of the copper mine spoil heaps along with good examples of ‘Lynchets’, a type of linear cultivation terrace, possibly dating back to the 9th Century. These features can be clearly seen on aerial and satellite photography.
The church dates from the Norman period and there are some fine Norman arches on the north side of the aisle. It must at some point have fallen into a poor state of repair, as a thorough restoration of the church was carried out between 1867 and 1869 under the direction of the architect Sir George Gilbert Scott, who was during the same period overseeing the design and construction of the Albert Memorial in London’s Kensington Gardens.
The Lytch Gate is relatively large and complex and is notable for being the middle of three adjacent gated entrances into the Church Yard.
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