The Round Chapel - Tollgate Park Multi-Cache
cloudspotter: No longer viable as the multi due to a change in information board and the cache going missing. Archiving to make way for a traditional Church Micro - thanks everyone who visited [:)]
The Round Chapel - Tollgate Park
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The coordinates above are for the Chapel and not the cache itself which is situated a short distance away.
Beulah Chapel, known locally as ‘The Round Chapel’ was the only building to survive the controversial demolition of Groes village in 1975. Then, 21 houses and a school were destroyed to make way for the westbound M4 motorway. The chapel, dating back to 1838, was dismantled stone by stone and rebuilt in Tollgate Park in Margam opposite a small shopping centre near the Port Talbot steelworks where it reopened in 1976 and is now a Cadw listed building.
Despite being called ‘The Round Chapel’, Beulah is an octagonal building which local tradition says was built that way ‘to stop the devil from hiding in the corners’. In reality, it was modelled on the Chapter House at Margam Park.
The area is exceptionally busy. The the cache container is placed a short walk away at the following location: N 51° 34.ABC W 003° 45.DEF.
To find the correct coordinates for the cache you need to study the sign outside the chapel:–
A = 20th letter of the 1st line
B = 5th letter of the 2nd line
C = 6th letter of the 3rd line
D = 3rd letter of the 4th line
E = 2nd number of the 5th line
F = 13th letter of the 4th line
Now you should have 5 letters and 1 number. Convert the letters into numbers according to their position in the alphabet ie. a=1, b=2, c=3, etc and then place them along with the one number into the above co-ordinates.
Parking is available within six feet of the chapel gate. The park gates are closed in the evening, but during the day you will be able to walk right around the chapel.
As a point of interest, the Toll House which gave Tollgate Road its name was just a little way up the road at the junction of Tollgate Road and Morfa Road (east side) - it is just a small grassy area now, no sign of the quaint little stone building where dues were collected. This was once the main road (shown by a milestone just across the road by the park fence). The Chapel and the cache container are accessible by wheelchair users.
The cache container is a magnetic nano so please bring your own writing implement.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Guvax zntargvp naq 'byq'.
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