Helmsley is a pretty market town on the river Rye. It is a tourist attraction and a favourite meeting place for walkers starting on the Cleveland Way. The town boasts four former coaching inns and a magnificent half timbered rectory.
The town is dominated by the ruins of Helmsley Castle. Guarding the Rye Valley, this early 13th century castle is surrounded by a formidable double ditch cut from solid rock. The powerful Norman Lord, Walter Espec, who also provided land for nearby Rievaulx Abbey, is believed to have had a castle on this site at the beginning of the 12th century. The only buildings still in good repair today are the west tower and the later mansion build by Edward Manners, the 3rd Earl of Rutland who owned the site from 1563 to 1587.
The parish church of All Saints contains unusual murals designed by a Victorian vicar, to tell the story of both the church and the Parish.
On the outskirts of the town is Duncombe Park a fine baroque mansion which was the Duncombe's family seat for three centuries and was bought in 1985 by Lord Feversham who restored it to its former glory and opened it to the public.
You will need to visit several locations in Helmsley to find the answers to the questions and do some simple mathematics to work out the find cache site. The suggested route to obtain the information is as below
N54.14.761 W001.03.827 Number B in the actual final cache co-ordinates
If C=1 and W=10 what does V= ?
N54.14.768 W001.03.704 Number C in the actual final cache co-ordinates
Face west and look up at the plaque of Remembrance. You need to add together the two digits of the regiment mentioned.
N54.14.713 W001.03.618 Number E in the actual final cache co-ordinates
Face west you need the last digit of the number on the door lintel
N54.14.667 W001.03.220 Number F in the actual final cache co-ordinates
The first digit of the maximum weight
N54.14.818 W001.03319 Number G in the actual final cache co-ordinates
Face north east and look up. You need the third digit of the number showing date when this educational establishment was opened.
Now use the numbers you have found and calculated to complete he final cache co-ordinates. Just to make it a little harder don’t be surprised if you get a repetition of numbers in you answers.
N54.15.FEG W001.0C.3FB
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