This resurrected Church Micro replaces the original cache, archived in 2014.
Information
Chilham is a traditional and charming village, with a collection of listed buildings and local amenities including: a castle, church, village hall, public house, post office, tea rooms, and more. The traditional style of the village has made it popular with visitors, and indeed, it has been used as a location in television and film. I recently visited the village, and I was surprised to see that there wasn’t a church micro cache here, and as a result, I’ve gone and placed one!
“The church of St Mary, Chilham, was mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 but has a history going back perhaps as far as the 7th century. In the 12th century, the church was owned by the French abbey of St Bertin, a Benedictine monastery at St Omer. It later passed into the hands of Syon Abbey, based at Isleworth in Middlesex. The church is famous as the last known resting place of the shrine of St Augustine. When the Abbey of St Augustine in Canterbury was destroyed during the English Reformation, the gilded shrine containing the saint's body was removed from the abbey and brought to Chilham church. Here, it stayed until 1541 when it disappeared. Several attempts to determine what happened to the shrine have proved unsuccessful, and its whereabouts remain a great historical mystery."
For more information visit: http://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/01/03/CHH.htm.
Coordinates
Now, focussing on the multi-cache, you will need to identify six pieces of information (A-F) to determine the final location:
N 51° 14.(B/3)(C)(A-2) E 000° 57.(D+1)(E-3)(F-4)
Questions
At the listed coordinates, you will see a stone memorial dedicated to the fallen soldiers of Chilham in WW1 and WW2.
1. In the centre of the column, is the phrase “THEIR NAME ? FOR EVERMORE”. How many letters are there in the third word? (= A).
2. How many names are memorialised from WW2? (1939-1945) (= B).
A couple of metres behind the stone memorial, are the enclosed remains of an ancient yew tree.
3. Approximately, how long did the yew tree survive for? (1,C00 years).
4. Locate ‘John Edward Harding’ - Died 3rd October 198D.
Head over to the pair of memorial benches at the south-west entrance to the church.
5. Locate ‘Terry Clarkin’ (November 1917 - February 199E).
6. Locate ‘Violet Entwistle’ (1894-197F).
The cache is a 35ml film pot, which is located a short distance from the church, outside the grounds.