This milestone cache is one in what will be a series of sixty hides placed to mark my milestone birthday which Covid 19 so rudely interrupted in 2020. I want to share their history and celebrate these wonderful monuments which sit quietly in our landscape.
Watch out for more caches popping up before my next milestone birthday!
About this milestone
This milestone is on the B4204 and was erected by the Stanford and Ham Bridge Turnpike Trust. It is a second generation milestone where cast iron plates were added to the face of the stone to increase the longevity of the information. There are about one hundred such milestones remaining in Worcestershire.
In 1940, central government gave instruction to every Highways Department to destroy their milestones. The plates were removed and sometimes the entire milestone was buried or destroyed to make sure that no navigational information was available to potential invading soldiers.
This lovely milestone is now also marking the bus stop in Clifton-upon-Teme. It has a replica replacement plate courtesy of the Milestone Society.
For information about milestones and the Milestone Society, please visit the links below:
Home - The Milestone Society
What Are Milestones? - The Milestone Society
To find the cache
Answer the qustions below and substitute the letters for numbers to solve the equation.
An answer checker can be found at the bottom of the cache page.
On the milestone, subtract the smallest whole number from the largest number. = A
The number of letters in the top place name. = B
Look at the fraction. Add the numerator to the denominator. = C
The number of letters in the lower place name. = D
N 52° 15. ( B – D + A ) ( C – A ) ( B / C )
W 002° 25. [ D – ( A x A ) ] ( B – D ) ( B – A )
The cache is a short walk away. You are looking for a camouflaged micro and will need tweezers and a pen. Happy hunting.
Milestone Birthday Series Bookmark List link:
https://coord.info/BMD17XP
You can check your answers for this puzzle on GeoChecker.com.