GCVXEE Sudbrooku (Unknown Cache) in United Kingdom created by The Blorenges

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The Blorenges: As mentioned at the beginning of the year, it's time for this one to go and thanks to all who've puzzled it out. Plans are afoot for Sudbrooku Tu soon [;)] MrsB

GCVXEE ▼

A cache by The Blorenges Message this owner

Hidden : 5/7/2006

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Size: Size: small (small)

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We thought it was time to have a Sudoku puzzle cache in our area and, as Mrs B can never resists a good pun, Sudbrook seems the ideal locality. Recommended parking at the given co-ords above: Turn right across the railway line, down the narrow road beside the village shop Post Office. Park by the small playground where there is also a decorative map of the area. This area is close to a 20ft drop onto the R Severn foreshore, so please keep young children close and take care!

Sudbrook has many interesting features including the remains of an Iron Age fort, ruins of an old chapel, great views of the Second Severn Crossing and last, but certainly not least, the pumping station for the Severn Railway Tunnel which was built by Thomas Walker and completed in 1885. The tunnel project was almost stopped during construction in 1879 when they broke through into the Great Spring which flooded the workings. It was eventually shored up but two pumping stations were built on either side of the river. The large building here at Sudbrook originally housed 6 Cornish beam pumping engines. These were replaced in the 1960’s with electric pumps. These still pump some 60 million litres (some 13 million gallons) of water a day out of the tunnel. This water was used extensively in the Llanwern steel works and is also fed into the normal water supply. The strange building with a curved metal roof houses a fan for ventilating the tunnel.

The cache is easy to find..... once you've solved the puzzle. For those who never done a Sudoku before, all you have to do is complete the grid so that every row, column and 3x3 box contains the digits 1 to 9.

A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I
1	5		8	9					1
9		6							2
				7	2				3
6							2	4	4
	1	3		4		6	8		5
4	9							3	6
			2	1					7
						4		2	8
				5	3		1	8	9

Use the numbers from the completed grid to solve the cache co-ordinates:

N 51° 34. (A7+D6)(F5)(A8-F2) W 02° 42. (D5)(D2+C9)(H7-F6)
The 3 star difficulty reflects the effort required to solve the puzzle. Please do it the traditional way, using a pencil and brainpower: Anyone using a "cheat" will have their stars forcibly ripped from their epaulettes

For those who'd like a circular walk of about an hour, go back up the road towards Portskewett and just before crossing the railway line take the signed footpath to the right across the fields. This will bring you to the site of the old Portskewett station, from there you can turn right up Sunnycroft, then onto the road to Black Rock picnic site and back to Sudbrook along the river bank.