Church Micro 304: Arrington Multi-Cache
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Church Micro 304: Arrington
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*** THIS CACHE IS NOT RECCOMENDED FOR NIGHT CACHING *** Find the co-ordinates by solving these smaller clues first of all. This will then lead you to a small Click-and-Lock container. Please be respectful of graves (Which of course goes without saying) whilst walking through the church grounds.
Our first cache, and very personal location to Jo, as she has lived here for her 26 years (Nearly!) and her dad has lived here in the village for his 62 years! Her Nana (Eliza) and Grandad (William) moved to Arrington during the Second World War, as William was a postman in London and one day got caught up in a bomb explosion ending up buried in the ruins for nearly a week! All we know is that he was severely affected by this incident and soon afterwards the family bought some land in Mill Lane, Arrington (Out in the country where the family would be safe and able to enjoy life a little more), where two generations of the Christy family have lived and been brought up in this beautiful area. Jo also has very fond memories of Sunday School when she was 5 or 6 years old, andplaying Angel Gabriel in the Nativity one year. It was very cold, and very scary, stood on a tall stool in the pulpit, the horrible boys left her up there and would not let her down. Her fear of heights has got better with age, no thanks to the smelly boys who found this highly amusing. Kids Eh!?
Both Jo and her sister were christened in this church, so there are some very happy memories here. This cache is in memory of Jo’s Nana (Of whom lived with the family for many years and will always be missed greatly.) and Grandad (Of whom she sadly never met, but heard many great stories of.)
St Nicholas Parish Church, Arrington:
This is quite high land, for Cambridgeshire: a bit of hilly country running in a v-shape from Haslingfield to Eltisley and then to Hardwick, embracing the valley of the Bourn Brook. I suppose it must be part of the same structure as the Chilterns (which pass through the county to the south, becoming the Gog Magog hills and then the uplands of central Suffolk), but it is isolated from the main body of hills by the valley of the Rhee. St Nicholas takes full advantage of this location: the churchyard is a great swell of land, and the church is lifted high above its village on a wave of green grass. The site is picturesque, but it has not been a boon to St Nicholas over the years. This is a church that has been repaired many times. The east face of the chancel is built of clunch that is crumbling and cracking - so battered that it looks like a natural outcrop of chalk. The rest of the church has suffered even worse. Part of the tower fell and had to be rebuilt in the 16th century - it was later rebuilt again in the 18th century and topped topped by a little parapet and lead spire. The church has also lost its aisles some time around the 16th or 17th centuries - the arcades are now bricked up and form the walls of the nave. It's still pretty, in a jumbled sort of way: they've reused the old aisle windows, and the south door has been reset. Later external additions include a comfortable south porch slumping into the soft ground, and a laterly added vestry.
The Cache - The Co- Ordinates above are a convenient point to start from, and from which you can gather the information needed to find the caches resting place. With a short walk to the cache location from the church, along part of Clopton Way, not suitable for wheelchairs of buggies regrettably. You will find easy parking at Church Lane, very close to the co-ordinates given above.
The number for this little red box is - SG(A) 529
The number of wooden benches in the church entrance - (B)
What year did Eliza Jane fall asleep? - 20(CD)
THE CACHE CAN BE FOUND AT: N52 0(A).18(B) W000 (CD) 0(B)1
Original Contents- Trotters Independent Trading TB
Water Pistol
Nail Clippers
Green Monster
Wind Up Dinosaur
Pen and Notebook
101in1001 Cards for you to take if you are a facebooker : ) (Feel free to take)
** If anybody would like to expand this series please do, I would just ask that you could let sadexploration know first so he can keep track of the Church numbers and names to avoid duplication.**
(Here you could also do *WImpole Park Hospital* or the *Arrington Amble* Series if you feel like it! - Part 2 being close to this Church Micro!).
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
VA BAR BS ZNAL BS GURFR.....
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