Stone Methodist Chapel, previously known as Stone Wesleyan Chapel was built in 1877, and was enlarged in 1912.
The village name of Stone is Anglo Saxon, meaning boundary or marker stone. In the Domesday Book of 1086, the village was recorded as Stanes.
At the published coordinates, there are three stone tablets to the left of the chapel entrance. Convert the letters of the middle tablet to numbers using the method: A=1, B=2, Z=26, etc. Omit the leading digit for double digit numbers. Then add all the numbers up to give you 2 digits. We will call the first digit A, and the second one B.
The cache will be found at N51° 48.(B-1)0(B+1) W000°52. (B-A)(B+2)(A+3). The total co-ordinates add up to 54.
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