Walk about Battle Multi-Cache

The starting co-ordinates will take you to the first point out of ten.This is just a short walk up Battle high street, and back down it again. Find the answers to the questions as you go. Waypoints are provided for all the questions/answers.

The cache has been designed to start you at the Abbey, walk up the left side of the high street, cross at the top, and walk back down the other side. Obviously you are free to collect the information in any order you wish. If you stick to the suggested order, you will finish near a bench (waypointed) that you can sit at to calculate the final co-ordinates.

At the start point:
Step 1: A = speed limit through the gates

At N 50° 54.906 E 000° 29.143:
Step 2: B = second digit of the approx date the rustic café was built, shown on the sign

At N 50° 54.944 E 000° 29.118:
Step 3: C = third digit of the number on the side of the coffeehouse

At N 50° 54.988 E 000° 29.083:
Step 4: D = add the digits of the century the old pharmacy was rebuilt in

At N 50° 55.015 E 000° 29.054:
Step 5: E = last digit of date above the door of the inn

At N 50° 55.043 E 000° 29.030:
Step 6: F = number of centuries difference between the age of the vaulted cellar and the age of the building, shown on the plaque

Cross the road, and head back down the high street.

At N 50° 55.010 E 000° 29.068:
Step 7: G = second digit of the restoration year, shown on the plaque

At N 50° 54.943 E 000° 29.151:
Step 8: H = number of stories this building had in 16th century, shown on the plaque

At N 50° 54.908 E 000° 29.298:
Step 9: J = George Marriott Edgar, May 195J

At N 50° 54.871 E 000° 29.387:
Step 10: K = second digit of the approx date The Abbot's Cottage was built

Final location: N 50° AB.DCE E 000° FG.KHJ

The cache is a clip lock container.

If you are sitting at the bench near the mini roundabout, you are looking at the area believed to be a possible place where Harold fell during the Battle of Hastings, according to a Time Team special. Although the official, registered, site is within the Abbey grounds. Where you see the road heading off down the hill to Hastings, they believe that was the direction William came from with his army, with Harold's army at the top of the hill. The rest, as they say, is history!