The co ordinates take you to the Commemorative Stone. If you want to go straight to the church, use the Church window co ordinates.
The Church is accesible by wheelchair, but the comemmorative stone is along a rough path and in grassy area. All flat but maybe difficult by wheelchair. You don't need to visit the comemmorative stone to claim the cache, it just adds to the interest.
Roney Stoke is 'A Thankfull Village'. I didn't know what one was until I moved here!
There are an estimated 16,000 villages across England. In the First World War every village saw it's young men (and some women) leave to serve their country.
Over 700,000 Britons died, yet 56 village communities suffered no fatalities – all those who left for war returned home alive. These places became known as ‘Thankful Villages,’ a phrase coined by the writer and historian Arthur Mee in the 1930s in his guides to the counties of England, The King’s England. Wales has two such villages. Scotland and Ireland have none.
St Leonards Church is a Grade-I listed 15th-century village church and contains a Thanksgiving Window in the south wall: It commemorates the safe return of 17 men and four women from the Great War.
http://www.stleonardsrodneystoke.org/
In an extraordinary twist of fate, research has revealed that it is likely that 16 of the English Thankful Villages and both the Welsh ones also saw everyone return safely from the Second World War. These are known as ‘Doubly Thankful Villages.’
The Thanksgiving Window is best viewed from inside where the plaque on the wall gives details of the men and women who returned from the Great War.
Logging requirements
1 How many coats of arms are there on the Thanksgiving window?
2 Please submit a photo of yourself/your TB, GPS etc at the Church or the Commemorative Stone in the village pound.
No need to wait for a reply. I will only reply if the answer is incorrect.
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