Advertised coordinates are for the locality only. You will need to do a little research in the Church Grounds to find the cache.
PLEASE RESPECT THE CHURCH AND DO NOT VISIT IN DARK/UNSOCIABLE HOURS.
Washingborough is a small village three miles east of the city of Lincoln on the lower slopes of the limestone escarpment known as the Lincoln Edge. Archaeological research shows evidence of habitation in this area during the Bronze age, perhaps to the end of the 6th or 7th centuries BC. Later, called 'Wassynburg' and was the starting point of the Car Dyke, a great Roman drainage canal. By the time of Domesday the name had become Washingeburgh, and the Domesday Book tells us that Ralph, the standard bearer, held it in Edward the Confessor's time. Now, known as Washingborough to visitors and Washy to the locals.
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The centre of Washingborough there are beautiful stone cottages with walled gardens, and a lovely Stone Built Church dedicated to St John the Evangelist. St John's Church underwent a thorough Victorian restoration in 1859. It has a Norman tower to the west elevation, and inside the church there is a Norman font. Church windows depict a Zeppelin raid on the village in 1916 when a Zeppelin airship dropped bombs on fields near the village. No one was injured at the time but two deaths were to follow.
It is thought that the airship was following the glow of a train's firebox on the line into Lincoln. The driver became suspicious and stopped under a bridge at Greetwell on the opposite side of the River Witham from Washingborough. In the darkness and thinking that the train had stopped in Lincoln station the Zeppelin dropped it's bombs hoping to hit some of the city’s factories. The following day hundreds of people walked from Lincoln to see the result of the raid with many using the ferry to cross from the north bank of the river. At about 4.30pm the ferry, crowded with more than 20 passengers, overturned and a man and a young boy were drowned.
The Parish church is a Grade 2 listed building.
FINDING THE CACHE.
Enter the church gates.
ALL of the questions below can be answered "WITHOUT LEAVING THE PATH".
All items of interest to you, can be seen clearly and are between the church gates and the Porch. Please do not walk on the grass.
The Cache is at N53. AB.BCD W000. EF.GDH
Capt George Bruce Legard was in (A) Battalion.
To the LHS of the path, how many X's on the building (B)
Thomas Barker was born in 18(C)5
Samual Johnson died aged (D)2
Lieutenant Geoffrey Legard , was in (E) Battalion.
The Eastern Church wall was restored by H.W.S. in 1(F)59
Hanna xxxxxxxx died ages 58. How many letters in her surname (G)
In the porch, how many wood carvings on the roof (H)
If in doubt the cache is not in the Church Grounds.
You will have to walk for it.
Good luck!
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