Lamberhead Green Multi-Cache
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A simple Multi-cache: go to the published co-ordinates to find the information you need to discover the final, well-disguised cache. Both parts of the cache and the route between them are wheelchair-friendly, but the route crosses a busy road. Please use the pedestrian crossing at the lights.
Lamberhead Green lies 3 miles West of Wigan town centre, straddling the border between the districts of Orrell and Pemberton. It's centred on the now little-remembered spot known as Pole Hillock, these days the site of shops to the NW of crossroads on the main A577. Lamberhead Green (or Lommra Green as locals call it) used to be a village in its own right more than 100 years ago, its population consisting mainly of miners and mill-workers, with nail-making also a local industry. To the south of the village, near Smithy Brook, was an area known as The Pingot, where there was a spring well-known for the purity of its water.
Purity amongst the local residents was in shorter supply - they could be a rough lot, whose popular pastimes including boozing and porring. For those who don't speak Wigan dialect, "porring" means kicking: men would have a porring contest, taking it in turns to kick each other with their clogs (no punching allowed) until, presumably, one of them gave in or couldn't stand any longer. For some reason this sport didn't catch on with the wider population.
Possibly because of this kind of carry-on, Lamberhead Green was a target for the preachings of the early Methodists. In 1776 Wesleyan Methodists began meeting in each other's homes. That year a new Lommra Greener was born: William Atherton, who would grow up to be Solicitor General of England and President of the Methodist Conference. As Methodism grew in the village, a chapel was built in 1790, succeeded by a bigger building in 1820. Eventually the village had three chapels within a few hundred yards of each other - Wesleyans, Primitives and Free Methodists. In 1932 the Methodist Union brought these three strands of the church together, and 30 years later Lamberhead Green Methodists joined as one congregation at Trinity, the church on Fleet Street, which is still used today.
The published co-ordinates take you to a memorial garden, the site of that very first 1790 chapel. For some reason a bit of public art has been placed there as well recently. You be the judge of whether this adds anything to the ambience here or not. 
If the gates are locked you should still be able to see the information you require to find the final cache, which is at: N 53° 32.ABC W 002° 41.DEF.
A = The number of letters in the 5th word on the central memorial stone.
B = The number of words at the very top of the entrance noticeboard.
C = Number of letters in the last word on the memorial stone, minus 4.
D = Third digit in the year that the garden was officially opened.
E = Number you get if you add together all the digits of the year the garden was officially opened.
F = The date in the month the garden was officially opened.
You are looking for a sneaky micro. No need to stray from the pavement to get it!
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Zntargvp
Treasures
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