There are lots of old things in Cambridge, and some of them even
say how old they are on them. The aim of this multi-cache is to
walk round the centre of the city, collecting dates. Those dates
will give you the co-ordinates of the final cache location.
There are eight dates to collect, but they are all reasonably
close together. The whole walk should probably only take about an
hour. You can collect the dates in any order you like: depending
which direction you approach from, you could follow the order
below, or you might prefer to start at EF. We have measured all the
co-ordinates twice and averaged them, but be aware that GPS
reception is not always great in cities.
You need the last two digits of every year that you
collect. For example, if the clue was
XY) 52°12.341' N 0°07.254' E. When did Darwin live in
Boots?
you would find that the answer was 1828. You ignore the century,
and so X = 2 and Y = 8.
| CD) |
52°12.345' N 0°07.146' E. |
When was the poem written?
|
| EF) |
52°12.423' N 0°07.078' E. |
When was the drainpipe made?
|
| GH) |
52°12.426' N 0°07.061' E. |
When did Edward III found King's Hall?
|
| JK) |
52°12.363' N 0°07.090' E. |
When was the church first redesigned?
|
| LM) |
52°12.327' N 0°07.075' E. |
When did the Rotary club provide the map?
|
| ST) |
52°12.237' N 0°07.089' E. |
When was the plaque about DNA unveiled? |
| NP) |
52°12.198' N 0°07.135' E. |
When was the electron discovered?
|
| QR) |
52°12.095' N 0°06.961' E. |
When were carriages and horses forbidden? |
When you have collected all the clues, you can find the final
cache at
52°1D.LSP' North 0°0H.EKR' East
There may be people nearby. If so, please be very stealthy when
collecting it, or come back later.
This is our first cache, to celebrate our first anniversary of
geocaching. We hope you enjoy it! A special welcome if you're
visiting from another country — we love to have cachers from
all over the world, so please say in your comments where you're
from!
