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University Challenge (Reading, Berks) Mystery Cache

This cache has been archived.

Orti & Ecky: It is time to archive this one. It got muggled and I just collected the remains. Luckily I've found the TB that was in there. The original hiding place is pretty worn out and no longer suitable for a cache of this size. Maybe we will come up with something else in the Uni ....
Thanks to everybody who has visited it and to Roastbeef who originally planted it.

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Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

You do not have to leave the campus to find the box and it is only a short distance from a path.It is wet underfoot at the actual cache location for most of the year - you've been warned. Though that doesn't mean that you necessarily have to get wet!

The university started in 1892 as an off-shoot from Oxford University. Reading University now has a number of sites and this site, Whiteknights, was aquired in 1947.

From the above coordinates you stand between Foxhill House and Whiteknights lake. There are a number of other victorian houses on the site, dating from a time when the estate was split into leaseholds, but these are all now part of the university.

The cache is not at the above location. This is location (A).

Birthday box (GCJAG2) is location (B)(used to be at N 51 25.884 W 000 56.108) and Earley Bird (GCH1AR) is location (C)(used to be at N 51° 26.030 W 000° 55.181).

The cache is found:855m from A,795m from B,1102m from C.

As you wander around the campus trying to find the cache I hope that you enjoy the landscape.

Note:

Please make sure that you replace cache carefully. Use some stones or wood to wedge it in please, it easily falls out. Thanks.


G:UK cache rating

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Haqre n ynetr, nccebk fvk sbbg fdhner, jbbqra guvat

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)