Walkover Multi-Cache
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The basics
This cache is not recommended after dark. You are looking for a fake rock hidden behind the tree in the corner (all will become clear when you get there). You will walk about 1.2 miles from the start point to the final hide. It is not a circular walk. Bring a pen and tweezers or a paperclip as the log maybe hard to extract.
Why "walkover"?
Not because it's such an easy cache. Rather because all the information required is on the ground. Thousands of people walk over the things I will show you every day without ever paying the slightest bit of notice to them. Given the clues are all on the ground, this cache is not particularly suitable when there is lying snow.
Hide location
The rock is hidden at N52 28.ABC W001 5D.EFG
Your clues
N52 28.866 W001 53.964 - Midlands Man of the Year Award
Value A depends on how many lines of text there are on the stone (all lines count):
3 lines (A=7)
5 lines (A=6)
7 lines (A=5)
There is another memorial linked to the events mentioned in the award very close by.
N52 28.777 W001 54.179 - Dog
Ebony was a dog belonging to one of the construction workers who renovated the Square. She had her own hi-viz safety vest and helped her owner carry his tools.
Value B is the number of digits in the dates mentioned.
N52 28.789 W001 54.207 - Measurements
Even Birminghamologist Carl Chinn doesn’t know why this curious line of measurements is inlaid into the paving here. If you happen to know, please tell me!
Value C is shown below alongside the unit of measurement which is NOT inlaid in the paving stones:
Poles (C=6)
Metres (C=7)
Links (C=8)
Feet (C=9)
Yards (C=0)
N52 28.784 W001 54.436 - Industrialist
This man’s first book was published in 17D7.
N52 28.678 W001 54.659 - Rock Star
If a=1, b=2, c=3 etc, value E is the third letter of this person’s surname.
N52 28.680 W001 54.819 - Civic Trust Award
Value F links to the shape of this award:
Circle (F=0)
Triangle (F=2)
Square (F=4)
N52 28.523 W001 54.850 - Entertainer
Value G is [number of letters in this man’s surname] minus [number of letters in this man’s Christian name]
You now have all the information you need. Go find the rock!
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
snxr ebpx uvqqra oruvaq gur gerr va gur pbeare