A Giant Micro Multi-cache
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A multi cache based on the history of Moses Carter, The Histon Giant. The cache is a micro cache so please bring your own pen to sign the log. There is plenty of parking in the village of Histon.
Moses Carter otherwise known as the Histon Giant was nearly seven feet in height and over 23 stone in weight. He lived from 1801 until 1860.
He lived alone in a hut built of clay hods in Clay Street and every week he made and cooked a huge beef steak pudding and six large dumplings in an old copper he kept for that purpose. He washed himself and his clothes in “Dodd’s Pond” in Clay Street. He went around the village and to Cambridge pushing a large hand cart with vegetables and could be heard all over the village shouting his wares.
He owned and cultivated land on Histon Moor on the way to Cottenham, pulling the harrows himself, “I don’t want no hoss” he said. Children loved him and he would carry them about, two or three under each arm. He would tease little girls and let them kick his legs and would roar with laughter and tell them to kick harder so that he could feel it. He could carry a coomb (18 stone) sack of corn under each arm.
Naughty village children were told “Keep quiet here comes Mo Carter, he will cut off your head and put on a cabbage.”
He is reputed to have visited Stourbridge Fair and in a boxing booth he defeated all the boxers and threw out the Proprietor when he refused to pay him as promised.
Moses was a kindly man and most popular in the village. There was great consternation when on one occasion he disappeared, only to return a few days later from Ely Fair. He had walked there and back with his barrow!
For a bet he carried a huge boulder newly dug out of the ballast hole (on Park Lane) and carried it to the corner of the road close to where it lies now at:
N 52 15.093 E 000 06.368
What is the name of the establishment that the stone now lies within the grounds of? ABC DEFG.
As usual in these puzzles in the alphabet a=1, b=2 etc and where the number of the alphabetic position of the letter has two digits use the second, eg j=0.
Proceed to Mo Carters memorial at:
N 52 15.(B-C)D(E-1) E 000 06.(B-E-D)(B-D)F
In July 1988 a new memorial was dedicated to Mo Carter but on what day of the month does the memorial state he died? H = day of the month.
The cache can be found at:
N 52 15.(F-D)(D+2)D E 000 06.1(E+D)H
Congratulations to mjouk on FTF.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
N fvta sebz nobir