Church Micro 8705...Bodinnick Multi-Cache

A straightforward multi cache at the Church of St John the Baptist in Bodinnick-by-Fowey.

This cache is best accessed by going across on the Bodinnick Ferry from Caffa Mill where there is a pay and display car park. The ferry costs £1.70 per person each way. The cache can be done in an hour . Last ferry crossing is at 7:00 pm. Parking in Bodinnick is very limited and going across as a pedestrian on the ferry is the best way to get to the cache. 

The Church

St John's Bodinnick must be one of Cornwall's smallest and least pretentious places of worship. 

In 1948 the Vicar of Lanteglos. which is the parish church for Bodinnick, found that people would welcome his Evening Prayer at Bodinnick. The proprietor of the Old Ferry Inn offered the use of a room in a house which belonged to the Inn. The need for a proper church rose from these early meetings and services.

The proprietor of the Old Ferry Inn offered to give the parish the stable across the road from the Inn.  This gift raised much enthusiasm in the village and the the use of the old stable was considered to be a symbolic offering. Men of the village cleared out the old stables and Arthur "Budda" Bate and his three brothers - Jim, Bernard and Russell - did much work on the stone structure to create the building as it is presently to be seen.

In 1949 the church was dedicated and the altar consecrated by Bishop Jack Holden, Assistant Bishop of Truro. The Church was named St John the Baptist because centuries ago there was in the village a chapel of ease of St John.

Today St John plays a full part in the worshipping life of the Parish of Lanteglos-by-Fowey.

The Cache

The headline coordinates will take you into the courtyard in front of this small church. On the wall are mounted a number of slate memorials.

You need to spot one of them:

Arthur "Budda" Bate - ABAC - DEEF . Arthur, with his brothers, built this Church in ABGH

The cache can be found at  N 50 DE.FHD W 004 FC.CBA

The cache is a green tube 10 cms long by 3 cms in diameter in a camo bag.

Tweezers may be needed to extract the log.This is a busy and overlooked location so please be stealthy when retrieving and replacing the cache. In particular, beware of being observed by people in cars parked waiting for the ferry.!!
Pretend to be a "bin inspector!!"

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