All of the caches start at the church where you need to find the answers to a couple of questions to allow you to find the final cache position, and none are intended to be particularly difficult (I would prefer you to find the caches) or are more than 1/2 a kilometre from the church.
This is the thirty-fifth in the series and starts at the delightful church of St. John the Apostle and Evangelist in the hamlet of Llandenny. the above co-ords are for the entrance gate which is set back off the road inbetween two houses. You can park just up the road.
I had the help of my young daughter when I set this one out and this was her favourite church of the day as she said it was modern inside for a church! It certainly is a pretty and well-kept church inside.
Built mainly in the Perpendicular style this church consists of a chancel, nave, south porch and a large western tower containing 6 bells and dates from the 12th century, although only the nave survives from that date as far as I can tell, with the chancel being 14th century and the tower and roofs being 15th. There is also an interesting Norman window too. The church was substantially restored 1860-1865. Inside there are too many interesting features to list here so I would encourage you to pop in and take a look.
To find the whereabouts of the final cache location look for the answers to the questions below and replace the letters for the appropriate numbers in the co-ords at the bottom. So here we go:
Before you enter the church grounds pause under the lychgate shelter and look at the commemorative stone to your left that tells you when the lychgate was restored. The date was 1AB0
Step back now and before you go in through the little gate to the left of the lychgate you will see an unusual pattern on the gate latch. On the right end of the latch arm (the bit that engages in the separate receiver/strike) you will see a cross shape with some 'dots'. How many dots? This is C.
Head to the porch, go in, and you will see a red sandstone block above the door. If it is square-shaped D is 0, if it triangular-shaped D is 1, or if it is semi-circular shaped D is 2.
Head back out of the porch and you will see the graveyard cross and an inscription on it facing you (at it's base). The number of words in the second row is E.
Head round the church to the right to the opposite corner as it were, and you will see a chimney with vents at the top. F is the number of vents.
Walk round the castellated tower and count the number of projecting rainwater run-offs. This is G.
The number of crosses on the porch roof is H.
So replace your answers in this co-ord and off you go to get the cache! Final position N 51° F(G-D).(A+B)C(E-H) W 002° 5B.(C+E+H)A(F+G)
The cache can be reached by walking or driving and you are looking for a well-hidden micro container. PLEASE NOTE that the cache IS NOT inside the tree (but there is something of interest in there). Please do not claim what you see in there as the find - it's not!!