The locations below are listed in a logical order, and if you visit them in the same order will take you on a circular tour of the village involving a walk of less than a mile. Of course, you may decide to cheat and drive round, but then you’re missing half the point of geocaching.
To find the cache, you will need to visit the locations and obtain various letters, words or phrases. For each letter of each answer cross off one corresponding letter in the grid below. The letters remaining are then converted into numbers to give the coordinates for the final cache.
You will need to print off this grid and take it with you!
Location 1 - near N 51°50.956 W 01°02.606
Immediately adjacent to some Taxus topiary you can see what may be mistaken as three occupations (total of 20 letters)
Location 2 - near N 51°50.992 W 01°02.593
James Jones was suddenly called away in 1885. On whose day? (8 letters – careful!)
Location 3 – near N 51°51.042 W 01°02.298
What is the fictional country? (6 letters)
Location 4 – N 51°51.168 W 01°02.339
Six glass blocks set into a red brick wall. What is the number of the property? Spell it out (3 letters)
Location 5 – near N 51°51.264 W 01°02.567
Whose farm? (7 letters)
Location 6 – near N 51°51.233 W 01°02.593
On a plaque, two numbers are spelled out by 8 letters, but two letters are repeated. Use each letter only once in the grid (6 letters)
Location 7 – near N 51°51.082 W 01°02.619
When was the Memorial Hall extended? Take the last digit of the year and spell it out (3 letters)
Location 8 – near N 51°51.067 W 01°02.641
Five what? (5 letters)
You should now be left with six letters in the grid. Each of these needs to be converted to a number in the time honoured way, a=1, b=2, c=3 etc. In the case of double digit numbers, ignore the leading digit. You should now have six numbers. Are you still with me?
These can now be converted to the co-ords for the location of the cache. Call the lowest number w and then sequentially up to the highest which will be z (zero counts low).
So your final destination is N 51° 51.wwz W 01° 02.ywx
It’s adjacent to a public footpath, so please be discrete when retrieving and replacing the cache.
