Leigh Park was once famous as the third largest council housing estate in Europe. The first residents arrived in 1949 and by 1960 it boasted 14 schools, 5 churches and a population of 30,000 and rising. The estate has enjoyed a mixed reputation over the years and many of the houses are now privately owned following the Thatcher 'right-to-buy' policy of the 1980s.
Meetings began at the Leigh Park Baptist Church in 1954 in a local house and by 1956, work had started on the building of the Church in this location. Work was completed and the Church opened in 1957. A Sunday school soon followed and in the 1960s the members of the Church played a lead role in the local tenant's association and led a rent strike.
I have chosen to place a micro (with room only for a log and pencil) in a hiding place I hope will escape the worst of destructive muggle attention from the local woodland-users. I'm not sure that anything bigger than this would remain for long.
EDIT Summer 2024. This cache is a good few years old and on a recent visit, I happened to notice just how overgrown everything is now that it doesn't get visited particularly often. It's one of my oldest CMs, so I'm reluctant to archive it and don't want to amend the terrain rating, which will skew everything for everyone who's ever visited. I'm going to leave things as they are for the time being but please be aware, this may not be suitable for very young children and you'll need to wear long trousers. If this ends up being an unsatisfactory situation with too much negative feedback, I may have to archive.
Please note that geo-tweezers may be required to extract the log if you have broad fingers. I've replaced the pencil in there a few times, but they do go astray, so please bring your own just in case. The woodland can be accessed via footpaths from the adjacent Battens Way and Stockheath Road – both of which have plenty of on-street parking. This cache has been recently 'rebranded' as a Church Micro with the agreement of Sadexploration.
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