The Church
The Parish of Treslothan was divided from the Parish of Camborne in 1845. St John's Church was built to the designs of George Whitewick four years earlier (opened in October 1841). The 15th century font was removed from Camborne church in the 18th century. The miner poet John Harris is buried in the churchyard, where the mausoleum of the Pendarves family also stands. John Harris left Cornwall only once in the 64 years of his life. His only education was at the village school, but he taught himself to write poetry, saved money to buy books, built a house with his own hands. John born in Camborne in 1820 ceased schooling at the age of 9 and started working on a farm. At the age of 10 he went to Dolcoath mine as a dresser of copper ore, but found time to read his books and began to write verses about the scenes he saw every day. When some miners were killed in Carn Brea mine he wrote a poem in their memory which was sung in the streets of Camborne, and the rector, recognising his talent, lent him books of poetry. He became a lay preacher among the Wesleyans, but continued to write; another preacher who had started life as a farm lad but made a fortune in business, arranged for the publication of his poems. This resulted in a new volume almost every year. He was to win the first prize for a Shakespeare Tercentenery Poem, and it was in winning this prize that John mad his one journey outside Cornwall, to Stratford. In 1878 he had a paralytic stroke, but this did not prevent him from writing his last work - an Autobiography - which was published two years before his death at Falmouth.
The Cache
The headline coordinates will take you to the gate leading into the church grounds. There is a memorial plaque on this gate with a date in the bottom right hand corner.
The month and year on this plaque will give you
A BCDE
Stage 2 will take you to the Pendarves Mausoleum, where Edward William Wynne Pendarves (d.1853) and his wife Tryphena (d.1878) are buried.
The number of narrow vertical windows will give you
FG
Stage 3 takes you to the Treslothan Well.
The number of virtical bars in the TOP section of the gated front will give you the number for
H
The Final Cache can then be found at:
N50 (D-A)(C-H).(E+B) F (C-A)
W005 ((G+A)-D)(E+F).E B (H-E)
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