Church Micro 9221...Sandy - Methodist
This cache has been placed to bring you to the Methodist church in Sandy.
The hamlet of Girtford is located in the east Bedfordshire parish of Sandy on the Great North Road. The first Primitive Methodist chapel was located in London Road. This chapel in the Bedford Circuit opened on 6 October 1868 and had seating for 120 people. In addition to afternoon and evening Sunday worship, a midweek meeting was held fortnightly on a Thursday evening.
The current chapel was opened in 1910 in St Neots Road. The architect for the new chapel was George Baines and it built by Charles Wright of Biggleswade. The chapel later became the Methodist Union, and then became Sandy Methodist Church in 2014 and remains as such to the present day.
To find the cache you first need to go to the cache page co-ords and find the foundation stone nearest the main door and "Welcome" mosaic. It's decication has 5 words: the number of letters in each of the five words are A, B, C, D and E respectively.
The cache can be found at N 52 7.(A+E) (CxD) (A+C) W 0 17.(B+D) (C) (B-A)
Check sum of all the digits = 58
Please be respectful around the church: the final is NOT on church property.
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