The Elgar Enigma series celebrates the 150th anniversary of Elgar's birth, the countryside that so inspired him and his first widely recognised work, Variations on an Original Theme, more commonly known as The Enigma Variations.
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Variation VIII (Allegretto) W.N. was dedicated to Winifred Norbury. She was a close neighbour of Elgar and, being an excellent pianist, would often help Elgar try out new musical ideas, she on the piano and he on the violin
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Winifred Norbury
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A flooded Longdon Marsh
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Elgar bicycled everywhere; it is said that he had riden along every road around the Malverns. Longdon Marsh and Queenhill Church were places he would come to often and he composed "The Apostles" while here. In the summer the area is farmland but in the winter (or after heavy rain) this area floods.
This cache is a different variation on the usual caching theme. The coordinates are hidden in one of the other caches in the series. We are not going to tell you which one so you may want to leave this cache to the end when you have found the others.
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There is parking nearby to the start of the path for a couple of cars at the coords above.