Church Micro 473
Brokerswood
All Saints
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The church is part of North Bradley parish. The tin mission church,dedicated to All Saints, was originally erected at Southwick near Trowbridge to replace the iron church there that had been destroyed by a fire in 1897.
When a new stone church was built in its place in 1905 the tin church was taken down and re assembled at Brokerswood on land given by a Mr Asher of Wimborne. It has a stone and rubble foundation and a raised wooden floor, while the main structure is of wood with galvanised corrugated iron cladding.
There is a small vestry annex at the north east corner and a high pitched bell over the main west entrance. There are no mains water, gas or electricity and heating is by portable gas heaters and lighting is by oil lamps. The church was restored in the 1990's and is still used for services to this day.
Accessibility
Unfortunatly, this cache is not wheelchair accessible. However you should have no trouble with pushchair access.
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A cache was originally placed here with this church micro name and number by darapotter, which was active for 13.5 years; 16/2/2009 - 27/9/2022.
I have resuscitated this cache to continue to bring cachers to this unique location for years to come.