Pontardawe - Town or Village? Multi-Cache
Pontardawe - Town or Village?
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You decide as you walk through the town/village of Pontardawe. As you take a stroll through our old village you go past the clues that will allow you to open the cache. The cache location is near the Gwachel (known also as The Pontardawe Inn) where you can relax, have a cracking pint of real ale and as long as you are not there on a Tuesday night scoff some real home cooking... Wednesday night is Acoustic Club night, bring an instrument then!!!
The co-ordinates above is for one of the car parks in Pontardawe. But, in time honoured tradition, you can use any one that you wish to attempt this cache.
Don't go straight to the cache as you will need some answers to a few simple questions first...
1) At The Cross Community Centre - N51°43.215, W003°51.197 - How many blue doors does this building have? Answer = A
2) At N51°43.185, W003°51.012 - The distance shown on the sign to Pontardawe's Twin Town, Locminé 76B. Answer = B
3) At the Human Sun Dial - N51°43.147, W003°50.968 - The year it was built 199C. Answer = C
4) Finally at N51°43.123, W003°50.916 - How many arms does the signpost have? Answer = D
Now go to the cache at: N51°43.070, W003°50.865 and sign the book.
The cache will hold v small trades, small coins will fit nicely. TBs may not... The cache will have a FTF Geocoin for the first to find. Bon chance and good speed!
I thought of adding some boring history, but you don't really want to know about Pontardawe's industrial past do you? That it had a busy canal, steel and tin works etc... that would be a bit too boring when there are clues to solve and a cache to find... I bet you didn't want to know that Pontardawe means Bridge (Pont) on the River Tawe... or that it was originally a settlement that grew on the crossroads of two drovers tracks, one that went from Swansea to Brecon and the other from Neath to Llandeilo. It came to age in the latter part of the 19th centuary when a large influx of population flooded to the area thanks to the steel and tin works... that was when they built the impressive St Peter's Church.
OK, history lesson over - go caching!
Preseli
PS - This cache now has snippets of co-ordinates for a new cache nearby!
PPS - this cache should be wheelchair accessible all the way. Follow the cycle path if you are coming from Herbert St in a chair - I hope you can get through the barrier! Will double check measurements and update...
Additional Hints
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Treasures
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