The centre of the village with its narrow High Street is dominated by the sandstone church of St James The Great. Park Avenue, the driveway past the Church leads into Wrest Park with an impressive tree lined route to Wrest Park House, at its end.
The church stands near the site of a much earlier free chapel of St. Leonard, first mentioned in the Liber Antiquus (1209–35), that became a chapel of ease in the 17th century. In the early 19th century Thomas Philip Robinson, 2nd Earl De Grey (1781–1859), wished to construct a spire but the weight of the structure proved too much for the supporting walls and the whole building collapsed, the church was then rebuilt on it's current site. It consists of chancel, nave, aisles and a tower containing three bells. Built in local ironstone, the altar rails are made from 17th century oak taken from the chapel of the original Wrest House. Most of its stained glass windows represent the families of Wrest House. On Sunday 25th July 1909 King Edward VII attended the church service here and made a donation towards the clock fund.
It is the date on the clock you will need to find the cache = ABCD
the cache can be found at
N52 00.(B-C)A(B-A) W000 25.(C+A)DB
You can make a good circular walk with the caches
GC462G2 Wrest Park
GCJTW6 A Trivia Pursuit - PINK
GC2NKKK Inspector Cluedo: Mrs White
If anybody would like to expand this series then 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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Cache is now a micro - sorry no room for trades or trackables
Congratulations to Pumkin67 on a well deserved FTF