Teign Valley Quiz Multi-cache

The cache is not at the published coordinates but is within five miles. You will need to spend some time in front of your computer to research and answer the following questions to solve the final coordinates where the cache is placed.

• The river Teign ends by two towns, one on either side. Add the vowels up for both town names. This value is A
• Wending its way from high on Dartmoor near to Cranmere Pool, how many miles long is the River Teign? (According to Wikipedia) This value is B
• Although not as long or as famous as the Stover Canal, The Hackney Canal also once joined the Teign. When did it close?     19?8 This value is C
• The last road to cross the Teign before it reaches the sea is the A37? This value is D
• The River Teign has been used for many commercial enterprises, including the shipment of goods and foods to Newton Abbot, the export of Ball Clay, and the transport of fine quality granite from Dartmoor using the Haytor Granite Tramway. (Commemorated by the Templer Way). In what year was the tramway officially opened? 18?0 This value is E
• The Teign Valley had a railway, opened in 1882 and used for passengers and freight – notably carrying minerals won from the extensive quarrying in the valley between Chudleigh and Dunsford through the 19th and early 20th centuries. It saw a reduction in use after the war and passenger services were withdrawn even before the famous Beeching Cuts which decimated the English rail network. Although freight continued for some time, the Teign Valley Line was finally closed in 19?? This value is F
• Chudleigh Knighton Common, close to the river, had the distinction of being a US Fuel Depot from 1943 until the end of the Second World War, protected by Searchlights and an Anti-Aircraft Battery. It housing several buildings and was served by a short rail branchline from Heathfield. There are local rumours of a large volume of American equipment and vehicles buried somewhere on the common, left behind when the Yanks went home. The common is now a Nature Reserve covered by a SSSI and managed by the Devon Wildlife Trust with little of its history visible apart from some concrete and brick foundations. On the other side of the World, the war officially ended when surrender documents were signed on what day of September, 1945, upon the USS Missouri? This value is G

The cache is located at:

N50' 3(A+C).G7D W3' (B+8).E(F-11)

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