The Knucker Hole Multi-Cache
The Coastway Cruisers: Due to the fact that some of the clue items have disappeared and the cache itself has been Muggled, we have to reluctantly archive this cache after nearly ten years.
Well done to all previous finders and thank you for the favourable comments.
TCC~
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The above co-ords are for the car park at St Mary Magdalene, Church Lane, Lyminster. Situated between Arundel and Littlehampton.
TRAFFIC WARNING: Church Lane is off a very sharp bend, please take great care when approaching from the North.
PARKING: Available in Lane (probably difficult Sunday a.m.)
Some parts of this short walk can be muddy.
An easy little wander around the grounds of this parish church. It dates from Saxon times and is over 950 years old. It has a fascinating tale to tell.
Legend has it that a fearsome flying Dragon known as a Knucker (from the Anglo Saxon, Nicor, meaning water dragon) used to terrorise the local neighbourhood from its lair at the Knucker Hole, a bottomless pool of ice cold water, just 200 metres away.
A local farmers son named Jim Pulk, angry at losing livestock to the Dragon, baked a huge poisonous pie and left it on a cart for the Dragon to eat, which it did and subsequently died, unfortunately, after carrying the Dragon's head to a local hostelry to celebrate, Jim was
rather careless, and he himself died by contamination of the same poison.
Jim was given a hero's burial in Lyminster churchyard.The decorative tombstone was later moved inside to protect
it from weathering, so, if you can gain access, it can still be seen in the floor East of the font. It has a cross that overlays a herring-bone pattern, but has no markings to suggest the real identity of the owner.
The Knucker hole remains, beside the footpath to Arundel, now fenced off and owned by a Trout farm so therefore not accessible to the public. Its level never varies, even in the droughts of 1989/90, and sadly, perhaps, there have been no recent sighting of any more Dragons!!
Other variations of this story exist.
Right then here we go…
The following 5 clues can be found inside the church grounds.
Just fit the answers into the grid below.
1. How many flower shaped cut-outs are there in the Lych gate?
Ans = _ x 2 - 7 = J
2. How many lamposts are there? Ans = E
3. Phyl and Ernest ??? reposed and enjoyed views across the Arun Valley.
How many letters in their surname? Ans = L
4. Find a large heart shaped headstone with one dozen red roses on it.
In what year did Daisy depart?
The 1st digit = H
The 2nd and 3rd digits = B and C
The 4th digit = F
How old was she? 2nd Digit = A
5. On South side of church, what is on top of the Ockendon's grave?
How many letters in answer?
_ x 4 - 3 divided by 5 = _ = D
6. Now a short walk to N.50 50.133 W000 32.939 to view the Knucker Hole where the Dragon lived. Now find how many horizontal bars make up the main gate? Ans = K
N50 AB. CDE W000 FH. JKL
The cache is a plastic box, covered with some natural camo.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Guvf zvtug grfg lbhe fgrnygu naq phaavat, vgf abg sne njnl, whfg bss bs gur cngu.