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Border Crossings # 5 - Oxfordshire / Berkshire Multi-Cache

Hidden : 3/17/2014
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

This is the 5th cache in my Border Crossings series.

The other caches in this series are …

Border Crossings # 1 - Surrey / Berkshire

Border Crossings # 2 - Berkshire / Hampshire (now archived)

Border Crossings # 3 - Surrey / Hampshire (now archived)

Border Crossings # 4 - Berkshire / Oxfordshire (now archived)

This multi-cache starts in Oxfordshire, takes you across the Oxfordshire / Berkshire border and finishes in Berkshire.

The published co-ordinates are not for the cache, but are for the location of an information board (and the second clues).

The first clue can be found at …

N 51 29.545 W 001 05.277

… where the number, below the letters D and P on the telegraph pole is ABC.

The second clues can be found at …

N 51 29.366 W 001 05.181

… where, on the information board, Whitchurch House is D, Upper High Street is E and Duchess Close is F.

The final clue can be found at …

N 51 29.307 W 001 05.211

… where the gravestone says that Emma Sophia died aged GH years.

The location of the cache – which is a magnetic micro - can be found by substituting the letters in the following code, for the numbers revealed by the answers to the clues.

N 51 29.A(B-D)C W 001 05.E(G+H)F

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Oruvaq gur fvta.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
-------------------------
N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)