Welcome to Breedon Church.
Note that this cache is not accessible by car at night.
An odd place, perched on top of the hill that has a quarry on the East side.
The Priory Church of St Mary and St Hardulph is the Church of England parish church of Breedon on the hill. It has also been known as Breedon Priory.
The name BREEDON derives from the celtic word 'bre' for hill and the Anglo Saxon word 'dun' for hill and evidence of human activity on the hill dates back to at least the 1st century BC.
In the 1930's, quarrying at Breedon was carried out by manual labour - initially with men using picks and shovels who hewed the stone from the rock face. Tubs were then filled manually by a quarry worker and a young lad with his pony would pull the tub along the rails to the stone crushers (known as Crackers). There it was crushed, screened and fed into hoppers according to size. This was very strenuous work for both the tub filler and the pony pulling the heavy load and the men filling the tubs were paid as piece workers.
At the listed coords, the beacon, please take a picture of yourself, or a personal item, that includes the view of the recently shut down power station and/or the airport control tower.
At waypoint 2, please take a picture of the village, Breedon.
Waypoint 3 gives a view towards Derby, Not the best view of the city.
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