Church Micro 3209...Tardebigge Traditional Cache
Church Micro 3209...Tardebigge
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A church micro in this quiet lane, close to St Bartholomew's Church, Tardebigge.
Suitable as a quick cache and dash or link up to a few other caches nearby.
Parking available on the lane or in the Church carpark a little further along the dead-end lane.
You are looking for a small screw top pot, large enough for a few small swops and trackables. Please bring your own pen.
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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There are records of a Saxon church in 974 A.D., the name Tardebigge means 'tower on the hill'. The tower of a Norman church which replaced it in the 11th century collapsed in 1775 and the present building, except the chancel, was completed in 1777. The Cookes memorial survives from the Norman church.
St Bartholomew's Church is on a hill overlooking the Worcester and Birmingham Canal which extends 30 miles from Gas Street Basin in Birmingham to Diglis Basin in Worcester. The canal is level from Birmingham to Tardebigge New Wharf situated below the church, then it descends by 58 locks to the River Severn.
The series of 30 locks from the New Wharf to Stoke Prior (known as the Tardebigge Flight) is the largest concentration of narrow locks in the country. Of the five tunnels on the canal, two lie within the parish, Shortwood Tunnel (613 yards long) and Tardebigge Tunnel (580 yards long). Between the two tunnels lies Tardebigge Old Wharf, now the location of a boat-hire business.
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