Advent Calendar 2024 Day 14: St Michael and All Angels, Church Broughton
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.
This is (I believe) the most Westerly church in South Derbyshire. It is.a Grade I listed building that can be traced back to the 12th Century. Parts of the building are from c. 1100 including the font. It was much extended and rebuilt in the 14th century, probably around the time that Black Death devastated England, and lightly renovated in the 19th century. It is now part of the Appletree Churches grouping.
The cache is a simple offset multi, there were a couple of obvious locations right outside the church but I thought they might be overlooked. Instead have a look at the dedication on the gate and take the month (converted to a number) and year as A BCDE and the number of lines as F. The cache can then be found at
N52 54.E(C-D)F W001 42.B(C-B-F)D
The checksum of the missing digits is 18.
The cache is a short walk away although there may be moo-gles en route. Althernatively it's a short drive but please be considerate as there isn't really a parking spot. Please rehide the cache out of sight and securely.
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