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A traditional multi cache in a lovely Herefordshire village.
hidden by The Hornet
N 52° 09.635' W 02° 52.610' (WGS84)
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Location: United Kingdom > Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire
Cache type: Multicache
Size: Normal
Status: Ready for search
Time: 1:00 h 
Distance to travel: 2.00 km
Date hidden: 20 June 2009
Date created: 08 January 2010
Last modified: 08 January 2010
Waypoint: OK00AC
2 x found
0 x not found
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Description
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Weobley is an archetypal English village full of half timbered buidings which features on the "Black and White Trail" (see here , here and here ).
Your walk will take you round the village, to the remains of a Norman castle then out into the countryside. Once you have finished your trek the the village boasts a number of excellent watering holes.
You will gather digits as you walk round the area. These will give you the final co-ordinates in the form N 52 AB.CDE, W 002 FG.HJK The total walk should take around half an hour at most.
The cache is a small tupperware style container with only room for small swaps.
OK, starting at the suggested co-ordinates:
Waypoint 1 at N 52° 09.635 W 002° 52.617
You will be at the village car park. There is a small half timbered building here with a number of blacked out windows (some have two parts but these count as one window).F = Number of blacked out windows minus 1:
Leaving the car park, don't go towards the village centre (you'll see it soon enough) but head up past the pottery (a good place to visit if it's open) and look for the village museum and libray at:
Waypoint 2 at N 52° 09.549 W 002° 52.547
Feel free to visit the museum if it's open or the library which only opens on a couple of days. On Thursdays it's open from H pm to 6pm. There are some public toilets here if you need them. Continue to the gift shop on the corner and turn left past the Salutation Inn then take a small lane on the right to a notice board describing the castle at:
Waypoint 3 at N 52° 09.525 W 002° 52.442
On the notce board you'll see some information about the history of Weobley Castle. Walter de Lacey held the castle from xGyz - pqrs Do some sums now to find y+z=D and p+q+r+s=E Continue into the remains of the castle and take a seat at:
Waypoint 4 at N 52° 09.475 W 002° 52.424
In the time honoured fashion look for the date on the seat 199C. Have a wander around the castle ruins then head back the way you came into the village centre. There's a small garden in the middle of the high street. Here you'll see "Magnus" at:
Waypoint 5 at N 52° 09.548 W 002° 52.467
Here you'll see two dates 2AAA 1BBB Not difficult I know, but as you're here you might as well play the game! Walk to the other end of the garden and check out the bus shelter. There's a commemorative plaque with a date on it. The month is J (That is 12th of J 1937). OK, almost done now. Walk on down the main street to the church which you can clearly see. The impressive spire with its flying buttresses is the second highest in Herefordshire.
Waypoint 6 at N 52° 09.700 W 002° 52.570
Over the entrance is a sundial with a number mentioned twice. This number is K.
Well that's it, you have all the numbers you need now so plug them into your GPS and walk on. It's only about a third of a mile along a wll defined track. At one point the track diverges but keep to the main one and you shouldn't go wrong. It can get a bit muddy and there's a couple of stiles to cross but it shouldn't pose too any problems.
Good luck!
IMPORTANT UPDATE: Due to the hiding place becoming totally overgrown by nettles and brambles I've had to place a temporary cache approx 100 metres further along the track from the original location. For the final coordinates take the answer you just obtained and subtract 0.090 from the Longitude (i.e. the "Westings"). This should get you close enough to use your "cacher's eye" to find the hiding spot. The clue has been updated too.
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Decrypt
Frpbaq ryrpgevpvgl cbyr, sbbg bs unmry gerr haqre fgbar
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30 April 2010 Geoff.Anderson Found it
Just started geocaching and found this one very easily. A nice one to start with. Live in Weobley so most clues answered before leaving the house! Removed nothing but left a new 5P piece. TFTC.
Note to owner - Log in box shows many more than just 2 people having found it.
06 August 2009 Amberel Found it
Logging on 8th Jan 2010 after finding the cache last August when it was a TerraCache. This is what my TerraCaching log said:
The first thing that struck me about Weobley was the number of "wobbly" houses.Some of the very old houses appear to have strayed from the vertical, but this adds greatly to the character of the village 
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I enjoyed Magnus, and stopped close by for an ice-cream.
There was a considerable police presence in the village centre today, but simpy gathering clues from under their noses wasn't any cause for suspicion, and there were no police at the cache location .
Thanks for the cache,
Rgds, Andy