Church Micro 7655 Bratton Clovelly: 1 Packhorse Tr Traditional Cache
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Church Micro 7655 Bratton Clovelly: 1 Packhorse Tr
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First of 13 caches on The Packhorse Trail in Bratton Clovelly. The trail is approx 3 miles and it takes about an hour to walk excluding caching time.
There are sections of country road, bridleway, field and watermeadow. Off road sections are not suitable for wheelchairs or buggies.
Pretty and peaceful location with lovely views.
Please note there is no need to search around headstones for this cache.
Bratton Clovelly is the setting for Rev Sabine Baring Gould's novel, Red Spider.
FREE PARKING IN THE PARISH HALL CAR PARK
To enhance your walk, you print off the Packhorse Trail walk at this link:
(visit link)
or here for a prettily illustrated version: (visit link)
St Mary the Virgin is a pretty church with roots in Norman England. It is on a site that has probably been used for worship since Saxon times and the remains of an early wooden building are thought to lie immediately in front of the church entrance. The doorstep to the church is a menhir with Roman characters at one end. Other features include a Norman font, a ring of six bells cast in 1767, an unusual clock escapement, a listed headstone and some 17th century murals inside the church. There are views of Dartmoor from the churchyard. Unusually grand in scale for a small village, the church reflects the original importance of Bratton Clovelly as a crossing point for moving goods via packhorse or cart between Okehampton, Tavistock and Launceston.
*** Congratulations to The Appeal O' Bells for FTF! ***
If anybody would like to expand this series please do, I would just ask that you could let Sadexploration know first at churchmicro@gmail.com so he can keep track of the Church numbers and names to avoid duplication.
There is also a Church Micro Stats & Information page found via the Bookmark list.
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Fvg naq gnxr va gur ybiryl ivrjf nf lbh frnepu.