Advent Calendar 2024 Day 7: St Helen, Etwall
This concept of an advent calendar set of church micros is unashamedly copied from a set I found in Moray, Northern Scotland. When I discovered those, I knew I had to do something similar. All of these church micros are set in South Derbyshire, although geographically the district is quite wide spread as you may have noticed from A-Z and similar caches. I created a list of candidate churches in the area; some had had church micros before but I had no qualms about "resurrecting" those. There are a couple of unusual or off the beaten track entries in the set as well just to add to interest.
The name "Etwall" is believed to derive from "Etta's Well" and It's pure speculation, but as suggested on a blog by a former incumbent there was possibly a wooden church by the well and maybereplaced by a stone church in Saxon times. The Domesday Book records that there was a priest and a church here, and at some point between 1154 and 1181 it was given to Welbeck Abbey, and in 1370 the Manor of Etwall was presented by John of Gaunt to the Priory of Beauvale. The church is Grade I listed and dates from the 12th century with elements from the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries.
This cache is a simple hide placed outside the church grounds.
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