Drive into the tiny village of Upper Winchendon, near Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire.
Pass through the village until you see the telephone and post boxes, which are near N51° 49.256 / W00° 55.281.
Here you need to make a note of the 'phone number. It's on both the telephone and the poster behind it: 01296-ABCDEF.
This is also a good place to park, but please be careful not to block anyone in.
Walk north-east-ish along the road for a few yards, turn right at the triangular footpath sign and follow this lane -
past a 'Freerange Children' notice, an ill looking plastic pigeon and some antlers - to a stile beside a farmhouse.
Beyond this, you should take the higher stile on the right and use the footpaths provided to head towards
your second target. It's a telephone pole with figures carved into it at the intersection of the path and a farm access road,
at: N51° (B-C)(E-C).A(A-6)(C+D) / W00° BB.(A-D)BB.
The figures look something like this, but I've replaced the numbers with lowercase letters:
BT
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gL
hi
jS
A White Pawn can be found at: N51° (j+j)(h-i).(j+j+j)g(i+j) / W00° (g-j)(g-j).(h-i)(g-7)j.
The best route to it might not be the most direct one. It may be wiser to head away from the farm to a road and re-navigate from there.
I'm just trying to stop you from trampling some crops, but ultimately your route is your decision and your responsibility. While you're here,
why not have a look over the Colin Hunt (no place for a spoonerism) building. This must be the ideal place to spend
a 'black (k)night'!
The Pawn has a message for you. It's on a plate near its base, where you'll find some letters and a four digit number.
Let's call this number WXYZ.
Your final target, the Cache, is located at:
N51° WX.(Yx2)(Z-3)(X-6) / W00° (W+1)(X-4).(Y-1)Z(X-W)
If you choose to use the road to reach it, please note that there are several blind summits along it and cars come over them at a fair old lick,
so take care! Walk on the right to face on-coming traffic and be prepared to squeeze into the bushes.
People caching with children are advised to backtrack rather than taking this shorter route.
Fans of Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason might recognise this road from the start of the 'Fox Hunting' deleted scene from the DVD. Some of it was shot here, as well as in Aldbury, Herts.
Near a 'misleading' sign there's a stile. This is the most direct route to your goal.
If you see 'The Sign of the Black Dog' you're going in the right direction. Happy Hunting!
The cache originally contained:
1x Handy tin box
1x Thing for cleaning fluff out of your keyboard
1x Squeezy ball thing
1x Pringle 'carry case'
2x Tealite candles
1x The Phoenix Trail (Thame to Princes Risborough) leaflet
1x Audio CD. No adult lyrics. I checked.
Plus the usual: Cache notice, log book, pen, pencil, all in a bag to keep them dry, or to pinch to use 'Cache In Trash Out'-ing.
While you're in the area, I suggest you check (another vague Chess reference there. Did you spot it?) out my first two caches, Chess themed Geocache No.1 - BLACK ROOK (Bucks) or Chess themed Geocache No.2 - WHITE BISHOP (Bucks).
They're both within easy driving distance.
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