This cache is the first of four in the Long Melford circular walk series.
Long Melford has been settled for many centuries. It can still be seen as a piece of medieval strip-development from the great green below the church for three miles southwards beside the river Stour.
It was a busy village in Tudor times, and still is, attracting visitors and holidaymakers from all over the UK and the world. Kentwell Hall is a must if you are visiting Long Melford so please check out their website http://www.kentwell.co.uk/. Houses, shops and other businesses are comfortably mingled along Hall Street and Westgate, making a delightful environment for the wandering pedestrian.
Holy Trinity Church is one of the great Suffolk wool churches and was built almost entirely in the 15th century at a time of growing prosperity among the local cloth merchants. It was completed in 1484. The only modern part is the tower, dating from 1903. Much of the stained glass is medieval, and there is a Rabbit window which symbolizes the Trinity. It is an Anglican Christian church within the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich within the Church of England and has served the ancient and beautiful village of Long Melford, near Sudbury, for over five hundred years. The church stands on a hill at the north end of the village and looks down Hall Street, which runs through the village from north to south.
Co-ordinates for cache: N 52' 05.A0E E 000' 4D.2CB
A = the 3rd digit of Norman King Westlakes date of birth (clue - take a seat)
B = 4th digit of the year mentioned on the drainpipe above Thomas Ardley.
C = last digit of E C Middleditch's Regimental Number. Private Soldier of the Suffolk Regt during the Great war. (clue - watched over by an angel)
D = 3rd digit of the year upon which Robert Drury passed away (clue - left of the fir)
E = the number of sets of initials within the minton floor at the entrance to the church.
Please note that you do not have to leave the marked out pathways around the church. Please be respectful of the environment and in particular if you visit during a service. Please consider making a donation to the church fundraising effort.