Geocache Description:
Welcome to another addition to the popular church micro series. This one will bring you to the church of St John the Evangelist in Levens, just outside the Lake District National Park. This is a simple multi cache with the final location very close by. To find the cache, go to the cache coordinates, find the war memorial and follow the instructions below.
The church of St John the Evangelist
Levens was originally part of the Parish of Heversham. The church, St John the Evangelist, was built between 1824 and 1827 and held its first service in 1828. Mrs. Howard of Levens Hall met the construction cost. The church is open 24 hours a days. 7 days a week and is well worth a browse.
The Revd Sidney Swann (1912-14), made several changes to the interior, but the most significant occurred outside. The chapel having been built on a limestone scar offered insufficient soil depth for burials. His autobiography states:
‘I persuaded the Levens farmers to give me a boon carting day: they carried 200 cartloads of sand up… and soon the churchyard was green and ready for burials… but the difficulty was to get the first burial. A bribe of a sovereign, however got a corpse, and once there was a gravestone there, others soon came along, for it was no longer thought to be lonely’.
Acknowledgements to Levens History Group www.levenshistory.co.uk and Explore Churches www.explorechurches.org/church/st-john-evangelist-levens for the details above. There is much more information in the leaflets inside the church
TO FIND THE CACHE:
The coordinates will take you to the war memorial in the church grounds. Look for the names of the men from Levens who died in WWI. Find the 1st name MH, the 3rd name RG , the 6th name AC and the 11th name FB
You will find the cache at N54 15.ABC W2 47.CDB, where:-
A = the number of letters in MH’s second name
B is the number of letters in RG’s second name
C is the number of letters in FB’s first name
D is the number of letters in AC’s second name
Check sum A+B+C+D=28
Calculate the new coordinates and plug them into your device as a new waypoint.
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