Church Micro 3161...Derry Hill Traditional Cache

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Professor Xavier: As the owner has not responded to my previous log requesting that they check this cache I am archiving it.

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Ed - Professor Xavier

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Hidden : 11/19/2012
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

A church micro to continue the series started by Sadexploration.

I lived in Derry Hill for years as a child. I went to the primary school and my parents still live here (perhaps some of the local young cachers will know my Mum as she works at the school. Clue: woof!) So this village means a lot to me.
I spent many a school Christmas and Harvest Festival in this church, as well as the year 6 leavers ceremony (mine was in 1998!)

The church was originally built as a ‘Chapel of Ease’ for the residents of Derry Hill and Studley; most of whom worked on the Bowood Estate and lived far from the nearest parish church. The foundation stone was laid on Monday 29th July 1839 and the church was finished and dedicated the following year, the year of Queen Victoria’s wedding and the year in which Rowland Hill introduced his famous Penny Post. The site was donated by Mr Angell of Rumsey House with the cost of building raised partly by subscription and; according to an inscription inside the church; partly by a grant from the Incorporated Society of Promoting the Enlargement, Building and Reparation of Churches and Chapels. The 3rd Lord Lansdowne provided the spire at a cost of £111-10s-0d.

The original cache was a 35mm container in a camo bag which I won in the Wiltshire Event #28 raffle. However, it went missing so it's now a little smaller and magnetic. There's a layby opposite so you can do this as a cache and dash.
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.
FTF goes to Geo-g5

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Jneavat! Yrsg unaq oraq

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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