Church Micro 3185…Studley Traditional Cache
Church Micro 3185…Studley
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A church micro in this quiet lane, close to the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Studley, Warwickshire.
Suitable as a quick cache and dash or link up to a few other caches nearby which follow the River Arrow to Alcester.
Parking available on the lane directly outside the church or in the carpark a little further along the dead-end lane.
You are looking for a small screw top pot, with a bit of added camo.
If anybody would like to expand to 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
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Studley began as a Saxon village around the River Arrow. There is a priest at Studley mentioned in the Doomsday Book. There was probably a wooden Saxon church on the site of the present Norman stone church, which was founded around 1105. A late Anglo-Saxon axe head was found in the churchyard in the 1950’s.
From the Middle Ages, the village of Studley gradually migrated to its present site around the Icknield Way, now the A435. There is no documentary evidence for why the population shifted. Theories include the Plague or flooding from the River Arrow.
In the 19th Century there was still an inn opposite the church, and a number of scattered cottages, all known as Church End. Now only the church and the manor (on the site of the Norman castle, seat of the Corbucion family) remain. This has given the church an exceptionally tranquil setting.
The church was restored in 1888 and again in 1935, when the 12th century window in the north wall was discovered.
The church is listed as Grade 2*. The building is an unusual mixture of styles, with many architectural puzzles.
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