This simple offset cache is based on St Peter's Church in the tiny Oxfordshire village of Little Wittenham.
The above coordinates take you to the road outside the church - the cache is not at this location but there is parking here! Once you have gathered the necessary information here and from the porch there's a walk of around 300m along a very interesting public footpath
The Church
David Nash Ford's 'Berkshire History' website (the village has only been in Oxfordshire since 1974!) describes the church building as:-
a very pretty church. It is surprising to find that it is not terribly ancient, for it was almost entirely rebuilt in 1862. The original building was built for the monks of Abingdon Abbey who held a monastic grange next door. The 14th century tower is original, as is its 'Ace of Spades' window - a reminder that this playing card paid for its erection when it brought a huge win to a local merchant! The Dunches once had a family chapel on the south side of the chancel. Their fine monuments are now squeezed into the space under the tower. The great treasure of the church is the large monument to Sir William Dunch (1612) and his wife, Mary, the aunt of Oliver Cromwell. The Tudor brasses surrounding it include the first William Dunch (1597). There is a good collection of earlier brasses in the chancel: Geoffrey Kidwelly (1483) has an altar-style monument. His wife (1472) is on the floor with other members of this Lancastrian family from Wales who entered into the service of King Henry VI.
The Cache
The cache is located at
N51 38.ABC
W001 11.DEF
A = Number of people remembered on the left-hand seat just outside the churchyard
B = The last digit of the year those people moved in to the property
C = The last digit of the year those people moved from the property
D = The number of lights in the porch
E = The number of stars on the stone panel on the left side of the porch
F = On the stone panel on the right side of the porch count the number of pairs of antlers and add the number of flowers on the top line
If you would like to add to the Church Micro series yourself then please look here
http://churchmicro.co.uk/
There is also a Church Micro Stats & Information page that can be found at
http://www.15ddv.me.uk/geo/cm/index.html