This is not the cache location but the parking and starting location for a 7 stage multicache all based within the village of Swalcliffe with each of the first 6 stages giving you clues to find the final 7th location where you will find the Cache which has a little twist of it’s own. You can park at the barn and complete this and the other 3 nearby caches.
You are searching for clues sited a 6 locations in the village of Swalcliffe which will lead you to the 7th final location and the disguised cache. The whole trail should take you less than half and hour.
At time of placement the cache contained the logbook, pencil, pencil sharpener, specially designed first to find badge and a few specially designed finders badges, swapables and my “Pocket Dragon” travel bug. There is a space for some swap items.
This Multicache and the other very close by Kira’s Kes (GC57WZ6) cache has been made and placed by me as part of my Scout Geocaching badge (in 2014) and I am part of 1st Bloxham Scout Troop. http://members.scouts.org.uk/supportresources/4211/geocaching-activity-badge.
As well as this cache & Kira’s Kes, there are two of my other Geocaches in the village so look up:
GC378JC – Kira’s Cache &
GC360FP – LEtsGO Geocaching
Good Luck from “Scouting for Dragons”
This is not the cache location but the starting location for a 7 stage multicache all based within the village of Swalcliffe with each of the first 6 stages giving you clues to find the final 7th location where you will find the Cache which has a little twist of it’s own.
Swalcliffe
The village's name comes from the Old English, swealwe and clif, meaning a slope or cliff frequented by swallows.
Swalcliffe tithe barn was built for New College, Oxford in 1401–07. It has an almost completely intact medieval timber half-cruck roof and is considered the finest medieval tithe barn in Oxfordshire and one of the best examples in England. The barn is open free of charge on Sundays from Easter to October and houses part of the Oxfordshire Museum's collection of traditional agricultural and trade vehicles and an exhibition of 2,500 years of Swalcliffe history.
The Church of England parish church of SS. Peter and Paul is Anglo-Saxon in origin but was rebuilt in the 12th and 14th centuries. The bell tower was built in the 13th century and made higher in the 15th century. It has a ring of six bells cast by Matthew I Bagley and Henry II Bagley of Chacombe, Northamptonshire in 1685. Richard Sanders of Bromsgrove recast one of them in 1720.
The Final Location
To find the final location exchange the letters with the numbers you find at the other clue locations.
N52° A B .C D E W001° F G . H I J
= N52° _ _ . _ _ _ W001° _ _ . _ _ _
Location 1: Swalcliffe Historical Barn – N 52 02.293 W 001 27.087
You can Park in the carpark here (although there are limited spaces).
On the sign there is a telephone number.
These give the answers to letters A, E & F.
A = the first number
F = the last number
E = the 9th number minus the 6th number
Location 2: St Peter & St Pauls Church – N 52 02.383 W 001 26.976
Above the front door is a faded crest with a red background and a number of stars.
How many stars are there? divided by 4 = B
Location 3: The Stags Head Pub – N 52 02.256 W 001 26.970
On the Pub Sign count the total number of prongs on the antlers then minus 5 = G
Location 4: The Old Village Spring – N 52 02.279 W 001 26.914
The old water spout of this now dry spring is an animal head.
The number of letters in this animals name = J
Location 5: The Village Hall Memory Garden – N 52 02.314 W 001 26.827
Take the name of the person and work out the following.
If A=1, B=2, C=3 etc
The 8th letter minus the 9th letter = C
The 1st letter of the name = H
The 6th letter minus the 8th letter = I
Location 6: The most easterly house in the village - N 52 02.326 W 001 26.717
The post box and house name of most easterly house in the village was one of the places Gulliver travelled too, but which one?
D = the number of L's in the place name.
(Note: NOT Gullivers House – next door!)
Location 7: The Cache
By now you should have all the clues but before you go there make a visit to my other very nearby cache – Kira’s KES (GC57WZ6).
First To Find: adensbold.