Church Micro 4276...Wootton by Woodstock Multi-Cache

This cache has been placed to bring you to St Mary the Virgin Church, Wootton by Woodstock.

This is my first attempt at hiding a multi-cache and it's located in a village close to where I work.

The cache is a small Lok n Lok. It only contains a log and you will need to bring your own writing implement. The final cache is located outside the churchyard and is NOT accessible from inside the churchyard.

The earliest parts of the Church of England parish church of Saint Mary are the nave, north aisle nd lower part of the tower, all of which date from the first half of the 13th century, and the south porch, which is Early English. In the 14th century the chancel and chancel arch were rebuilt and most of the windows in the building were replaced, all in a Decorated Gothic style. The upper part of the bell tower was added in the 15th century and the clerestory was added to the nave in the 16th century, each in a Perpendicular Gothic style.

The tower has a ring of six bells. Edward Hemins of Bicester cast the third, fourth and fifth bells in 1732 and the tenor bell in 1739. Abel Rudhall of Gloucester cast the second bell in 1749 and Mears & Stainbank of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry cast the present treble bell in 1923. St. Mary's has also a Sanctus bell that Thomas Rudhall cast in 1778.

Whilst in the area, please look at the innovative way the locals have ensured there are no birds in the entrance porch. Genius!!

To find the cache:-

You can assume N 51.52 and W 001.21

Very close to the porch, there is a memorial to a former Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire and his wife of 60 years.

Please take the final digit of the year of his term of office as A

Please take the final digit of his age when he passed to be B

Inside the porch itself is a relatively recent addition with a box number written thereon

Please take the fourth digit (not letter) as C

Please subtract the first digit from the third digit to give you D

At a point very close to the original co-ordinates, you will find a plaque to Olive Brown and Mary Parsons

Please take the first digit as E

Please take the third digit as F

The cache can be found at N51 52.ABC W001 21.DEF

The CheckSum for the six numbers you have calculated is 29

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