October 17th 2009 –  The Wench is Dead  GCMPTC – Cache #157
A bit of a spooky one this… starts off in a churchyard in Rugeley Staffordshire at the grave of a murdered woman. A real murder that was also central to the Inspector Morse book (and TV episode) called ‘The Wench is Dead’.

I was just passing through Staffordshire, so I called upon Angel78 and together we went out to seek this cache.

It is a puzzle multi-cache, in that you start at the grave and from numbers on the grave you determine the co-ordinates of the next clue. The grave is that of Christina Collins, who was murdered in the 1830’s.

Solving the clue in the churchyard directs you to the canal, where there are some more clues to solve, this then leads you along the canal bank to the next point, the place where Christina Collins was killed… and clues there take you to the final cache location.
The cache itself is the biggest container I have seen while caching.
At this cache I dropped off the TB  Emo – the Fast Fish

The description of the cache says that it should take about half an hour to walk from the church to the cache site… well it takes rather longer than that if you are having to work out the clues and sort out the GPS co-ordinate programming. And the trouble is, it then takes another 30 minutes to walk back !