Church Micro #4422 Alderley Letterbox Hybrid
Church Micro #4422 Alderley
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This cache was in a competition with HobleyGoblin's cache GC4RBWY. Most favorite points by the end of FEB 2014 wins!
This cache was the winner!
The prize for the winner was a packet of chocolate hobnobs and the presentation took place at the St Patrick's Day (+1) event on the 18th March 2014.
This is a Letterbox Hybrid geocache which contains an inkpad and rubber stamp. These are not swaps and are to remain in the cache and are to be used to stamp your book. You then stamp the cache's logbook with your own stamp. If you do not possess a stamp, then you can log with just your name stamp, date as you would any geocache, or you can draw a picture.
This cache location has a lot going for it: Bats in the belfrey, it's a letterbox hybrid, a larger church micro with a fail proof hint AND if you don't have time to visit the church... it's a CACHE AND DASH too!!!! !!!!
The Georgian church of ST KENELM is open to visitors during daylight hours. It is well worth a visit and has a lovely serene atmosphere.
The village has an entry in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it is referred to as Alrelie meaning "Woodland clearing where alders grow". In a later 1309 document the village is referred to as Alreleye, and in a 1345 document as Alrely.
In the 16th and 17th centuries, the village contained a number of woollen mills, and in Samuel Rudder's A New History of Gloucestershire published in 1779 he states that Alderley had been home to the clothing industry for hundreds of years. In A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis published in 1831, Alderley is described thus: ALDERLEY, a parish in the upper division of GRUMBALD'S ASH, county of GLOUCESTER, 2 miles (S.S.E.) from Wotton under Edge, containing 235 inhabitants.
The village is situated on a hill between two streams, which unite and fall into the LOWER AVON. Cornua ammonis and other fossils are found here. Sir Matthew Hale, Lord Chief Justice in the reign of Charles II., born here November 1st, 1609, lies interred in the church.
The village contains several interesting buildings: The church of St. Kenelm was rebuilt in Gothick style in 1802, but the tower dates back to c.1450.
Immediately to the southwest of St. Kenelm's church is Alderley House, a 19th-century neo-Elizabethan manor house designed by Lewis Vulliamy for Robert Blagden Hale and built in 1859-1863. The house is located on the site of an earlier Jacobean country house built by the famous jurist Sir Matthew Hale in 1656-1662.
For the 70 years following the outbreak of World War II, the property served as the site for Rose Hill School, an independent day and boarding preparatory school, until its merger in 2009 with Querns Westonbirt school. The merger formed the Rose Hill Westonbirt School, which relocated to nearby Tetbury, and the vacant property was sold for use once again as a private residence. Alderley Grange was rebuilt, probably by a Bristol architect, about 1760; it occupies the site of an earlier house where Sir Matthew Hale (jurist) was born. It was the home of James Lees-Milne, the architectural writer and memoirist, and his wife Alvilde Chaplin, who created a much-admired garden.
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Va gur vil, oruvaq orapu.