St Nicholas Treasure Multi-Cache
Church Warden: As the owner has not responded to my previous log requesting that they check this cache I am archiving it.
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This cache is located within the grounds of 'The Common'
Great Wakering is said to be the driest place in the country!
Romans, Normans, Saxons and Danes have all travelled to Great Wakering and left their marks. The church is Norman, however bits have been repaired with Roman Materials.
The Common may originally have been a tidal creek, which was cut off when the sea wall was originally built. The earliest records date from l352, when a local landowner was prosecuted for restricting rights of access. Local villagers had rights to graze animals on the Common, a practice that continued into this century. The development of the site from a creek and the prolonged grazing since then, have combined to make an unusual habitat and two plants occurring in the damp slightly salty grassland are rare in Britain. These are Divided Sedge and Spreading Meadow Grass. Since grazing has ceased on the Common, scrub and bramble have invaded and ponds and ditches have silted up. In the last war much of the ground was disturbed and there are now nettles and thistles growing in these areas. Recent management has aimed to restore the appearance of the Common and its value for wildlife, by cutting the grass to discourage nettles, thistles and scrub; and by clearing ponds.
PLEASE NOTE: The co-ordinates above are for the car parking and not for the cache!
To obtain the co-ordinates for this cache you need to do the find the answers of missing parts of the sentances below which can be found in the nearby churchyard of St Nicholas Church.
Contents of cache at time of placing:
Pocket calculator
Rubber
Panda Trolley keyring
Vanilla scented candle
Pink bottle of bubbles
Orange bouncy ball
Blue squidgy face
show me the way to go home TB
The cache can be found at the following co-ordinates:
N51 AB.CDE
E000 FG.HIJ
1. George Blatcher died (A) July 1888
2. W.A Farthing was in The Royal Scots, he died in the Second World War aged 29 on the 22nd March 1943, his service number starts and ends in a (B)
3. Minnie Brown died (C) August 1949
4.Howard John Howgego died 1(D) Febuary 1944
5. Albert Edward Self died 21st December 19(E)5
6. Brenda May Robertson 1943 - 2004, how people in the grave? (F)
7. Alice May Speer died aged 5(G)
8. Elizabeth Rayner died (H)2 August 1930
9. Alfred Edward Aylett is buried in a grave with his father and mother and his fathers first wife! He died 8th August 1(I)18
10. Elizabeth Collin died 17th January 190(J)
Good luck, we hope you have as much enjoyment finding this as we did hiding it!
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Ghpxrq va, qbja ybj!
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