Welcome to Agincourt Square and the statue of Charles Rolls, aviation pioneer!
Although born in London Charles Rolls is known as a son of Monmouth due to his ancestral home being The Hendre, just to the north-west of Monmouth, and the place he spent much of his life. Born to the 1st Baron and Lady of Llangattock he attended Eton College and Trinity College in Cambridge and had a strong interest in many things mechanical including, but not exclusively, automobiles which led to the famous pairing of himself and Henry Royce to form the Rolls-Royce company in 1904.
His success in Rolls-Royce is well documented but he was also very interested in aviation, which is also well known, and he gained many successes as an aviation pioneer, one of which was the first man to make a non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by plane taking 95 minutes on 2 June 1910. The event which is commemorated by this statue.
Unfortunately aviation also led to his death when on the 12th July 1910, aged just 32, Rolls was killed in an air crash at Hengistbury Airfield, Bournemouth when the tail of his Wright Flyer broke off during a flying display. He has the dubious honour of being the first Briton to be killed in an aeronautical accident with a powered aircraft, and this was also the first powered aviation fatality in the United Kingdom.
The Cache
Go round the back of the statue plinth (the Shire Hall side) and you will see a plaque and inscriptions in the plinth with gold-coloured lettering. All the questions are based on these writings.
So, to find the cache and answer the following questions:
1) On the main body of gold writing the number of letters in the first word of the first line is A.
2) On the 16th line down what is the third number from the end? The number is B.
3) How many letters in the Right Honourable Mayor's surname that unveiled the statue? This is C.
4) What is the second digit of the date in October 1911 that he unveiled the statue? This is D.
5) Looking at the black plaque close to the ground what is the number of letters in the first word of the second line from the bottom? This is E.
6) On the same black plaque there is a date in July mentioned twice. What is the second digit of this date in July? This is F.
Pop your answers into N51 48.ABC W002 42.DEF to find the micro-sized cache.