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Friends of the Friendless - St Margaret Traditional Cache

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Boneychest & Catsuey: Thought long and hard about this one after receiving the following complaint:

"I have had the displeasure of being confronted by what can only be called over-excited and belligerent 'geocachers'. To top this off, I was in a cemetery placing flowers on my fathers grave.
I am disgusted at the completely inappropriate placing of one of your 'hidden containers'.. of which, as stated before, is in a military cemetery.
The location is extremely well hidden and the only reason you would go there is to visit a lost relative. Of late, there have been numerous groups of people screeching car tyres and running into the cemetery to hunt down the container. Not only have they been running around, laughing and joking, but also ripping up bushes to find it.
This has clearly caused some real upset, of which -if any time had been taken to research the areas used- could so easily have been stopped.
The container is still in situe, but if this is not moved asap, then rest assured, I will be moving it."

The cache hadn't been found in the period we recieved this email so the 'belligerents' probably aren't listed here. And the complainant was true to her word, the cache had been moved when I went to recover it for remembrance day - thank you to The Bovs who told us where they had found it.

Anyway, the card inside the cache said "if we need to remove it for any reason..." so, removed it is (and we have the travel bug).

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Hidden : 4/7/2007
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

It has recently been reported that fewer of us attend church than ever. The 'Friends of the Friendless' series is testament to that - each cache is at or very close to a church no longer needed by the Church of England.

The church of St Margaret and All Saints is currently being converted into a residential property.

Although the church is mentioned in the Domesday Book (1086) nothing of that period remains. The western half of the south wall of the chancel, and the south wall of the nave are believed to be the oldest parts remaining and are probably of 12th-century date.

A priest is recorded in the Domesday Survey at Wyton, but no priest is mentioned under Houghton. It was customary until the 19th century for a single incumbent to serve the two churches, which possessed a common endowment of seven virgates of land. In 1252 the men of the manor stated that though Wyton and Houghton were both mother churches, they had never known them to be held separately.

In 1978 permission was granted to convert the church into a dwelling and work has been sporadic since. At one time it was rumoured that Ruby Wax had bought the property and intended to move to Wyton but her name has never been listed in planning applications. Work on St Margaret's appears to have halted and Permission for internal alterations was refused in 2001.


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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Ba gbc bs gur jnyy

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)