The Best Ale? Mystery Cache

The co-ordinates above are for suggested parking.

This cache is based in and around the lovely village of Coleshill on the Wiltshire, Oxfordshire border. The village is almost entirely owned and managed by the National Trust, and includes tea rooms, a village shop, pub and a church.

This cache has been approved by the Buscot & Coleshill National Trust Estates. For more information, please go to their website.

This cache has a musical theme to it, which will become clear as you gradually answer the questions. You will realise it is all about one of (if not THE) Greatest British band of all time. It is, in musical terms, a medley, as it contains a number of aspects from other caches I've enjoyed.

In order to do this cache, you will first need to use the internet to answer the following questions and work out the subsequent puzzles. Then, you can visit the village to complete the cache! Once you have found the micro, it will tell you where the final cache is. Follow the track along the river until you reach two gates. Go through them and continue to the cache. Please take care with young children and pets alongside the road and the river, and observe the usual Geocaching guidelines. The river is prone to flooding in the winter months, so be prepared!

When you arrive at Coleshill, be prepared for a walk of approximately 2 miles

Place the answers to the following questions in the appropriate grid positions.

1. This village is home to a very famous record producer?

2. The surname of this well known chef (who had a car crash in this village) makes up half of the name of another famous British rock group? 

3. What river does the village overlook?

4. Coleshill House hosted a secret organisation aided and abetted by this brave lady?

5. The Radnor Arms used to be?

6. Coleshill House was built for this son of a wealthy cloth merchant?

7. Coleshill church shares its name with this English 90’s girl band?

    

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   Now, convert the following codes using the above grid to give you six ‘scrambled’ famous songs below.

   Unscramble them to see the proper titles. (You may need to make use of an anagram decoder from the internet if the brain cells give up!)

   Now, find out in which month each of the songs was originally released in the UK. (If it happens to be i.e. October, then drop the one, so it becomes 0). Now, if you can do this without the use of either a book or a computer, I'll be impressed! You should end up with a different, single number for A to F

   	Code	Scrambled	Titles	Month
   A	N1Q2H5B6Q4E1   P5P6P2   N5H6F4M7J2
   B	H7Q4S1H3Q5   E4P6Q2   J4N1H5
   C	B1   Q6P7G3R4K1H5   F5R6R7F2H6
   D	P4G5G4R1Q7N2   E6A3F2Q5K1N6
   E	A6K1L4P6E4K6   F4M6M6K1K7J4K6D5
   F	H5M5N4H2Q5   M6N7M6K3H6

   Now you can visit Coleshill to complete the cache and go for a walk!

   The Best in the West - Radnor Arms date?  N51° 38.537 W001° 39.522

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   Bouverie Cottage date?                              N51° 38.528 W001° 39.674

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   Lower sign: Number of A’s plus number of Y‘s?     N51° 38.441 W001° 39.582

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   The Micro Location (which will reveal the Final Location):
   N 51° (G+F)(A+P).(H-C)(B+Q)(C+P)  W 001° (D-Q)M.(B+C)(F+H)(J-L)

   Micro Cache location checksum of co-ords = 67

   Final Cache location checksum of co-ords = 52