GC33H8C Tamworth Village Church Series - 3 - Haunton (Traditional Cache) in West Midlands, United Kingdom created by martin and carol

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A cache by martin and carol Message this owner

Hidden : 9/4/2011

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Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

This could be classed as a series for lazy cachers! If you don't want a long walk or bike ride, this series could be right up your street.

You could easily do all of the series in one day, if you are driving. The route we took was about a 30 mile drive. You could, of course, do the caches separately, whilst doing other caches in the area.

If you do the caches separately then make sure you keep a note of the answers to the clues - you will need these for the bonus cache.

NOTE
We advise that you please do not park on the pavement for this cache. Please either park in the church car park or just on the side of the road. A local villager mentioned, whilst we were researching this cache, that they are having problems with damage to the pavements because of people parking half on and half off the road.

SERIES DESCRIPTION
We have wondered for a while why it is, that whenever we go on holiday, we always have a nosy in the local church, yet the only time we'd dream of visiting one closer to home would be for a christening, wedding or funeral.

There are some beautiful churches in some lovely settings in the villages around Tamworth and this series will take you to a number of them. Unfortunately, the majority were found to be locked when we visited, which is a shame, but the villages and the churchyards are still worth a visit.

Also, you do tend to find that every nice church comes with an equally attractive pub, many of which we tried out for lunch whilst setting up this series of caches.

The co-ordinates given are for the caches, none of which are actually hidden in the churchyards. Some are on the boundary of the churchyard, some close by, some a short walk and one, a short drive. There is also a clue to collect within the churchyard close to each cache.

The caches are a variety of sizes and we have tried to be creative where we can. Some of them are replications of other good caches that we've seen. If we've copied any that you have set yourselves then please take this is a compliment. Some are big enough to hold swaps and some only hold a log sheet.

Whilst there are no co-ordinates given for the clues, they are all easy to find and won't involve you needing to yomp through gravestones or to enter the church.

If you collect the full 10 clues you will be able to find the bonus cache, which is hidden in a place where we visited not long after we'd met and where we took the first photo of us together - ahhhh!

We hope you enjoy the series.

CHURCH DESCRIPTION
Haunton lies on the River Mease, about 7 miles north of Tamworth, 1½ miles east of Harlaston and 1 mile west of Clifton Campville. The name of the village is believed to be Old English, with the meaning Hagena's (or Hagona's) farm.

Haunton includes a number of listed buildings, for example, the Grange, the Church of St Michael and St James and the nursing home (formerly Haunton Hall).

The more recent history of Haunton Hall is closely linked with the Church of St Michael and St James and a community of Roman Catholic nuns. Charles Edward Mousley inherited the hall in the 1840s, and by 1845 had provided a chapel at the hall dedicated to the Immaculate Conception and available for Catholic services. By 1885 a church dedicated to St Michael had replaced the chapel for services.

This early church was soon extended, reusing masonry from the by then ruined Chapel of St James the Greater, and received its current name, adding the former dedication to the new. In 1902 this church was replaced by a new one, designed by Edmund Kirby, with the support of the latest tenant of Haunton Hall, Lady Frances Mostyn, mother of the future archbishop Francis Mostyn.

CACHE DESCRIPTION
This cache is a micro hidden close to the churchyard boundary. It's just big enough to hold a log sheet and a FTF badge.

CLUE FOR BONUS CACHE
September 11 - a date worthy of remembrance. The last digit of the year of this atrocity = C