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Cmdr_Bond

Well, not really a recap, but I think the MOST useful posts in this thread - my apologies to anything, others think is just as important, this is just my personal view:

thingamaBob wrote: »

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October 2010 - Treasure Hunt

In 92 hrh saw a wet place,
With vehicles and vocals and weights you must trace.

You're soon to discover a great source of pain,
A fine way to travel, but what is it's name?

This creature will show you a street in the pete,
Continue the rhyme to find somewhere to meet.

The cr and p room, use c without c,
To find the old wood where a man runs, you'll see.

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Have fun!

TheKiss wrote: »

Hi all, found this on Carsington Water ( Car Sing Ton ) geddit! Was opened by HRH Liz in 1992

SheepAreEvil wrote: »

Hello Again

Ok heres what i've got. From Carsington the source is Ambergate as that is where the water comes from. In Ambergate there is a Pub that is called the Hurt Arms. The Hurt Arms is the take off point for a balloon flight company which is a fine way to travel and this company is called the Dragon Balloon Company. So I'm going with Dragon as my Creature.

HOWEVER

Just to throw a complete spanner in the works, I stumbled across this...

http://www.cotswolds.info/strange-things/banbury-cross.shtml

There is more information on the many crosses of Banbury here:

http://www.banbury-cross.co.uk/banhistory.htm

With reference to their God, Dagon (not a spelling mistake)

Several things stand out to me in this, although maybe too many at once. Even if it has nothing to do with the clue, it has made me think that the place to meet might be a cross, i.e. a cross-roads.

that second link, for instance, refers to two coaching inns, one formally known as "The Flying Horse" and a second called "The Unicorn Hotel".

Cmdr_Bond

On a different track, from Wikipedia (where else)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_George_and_the_Dragon

The village of Wormingford in Essex, England also lays claim to the George and the Dragon legend. A dragon, now believed to have been a crocodile that escaped from Richard I, was slain in the River Stour. There are differing accounts, including different dragon slayers, however one popular account tells how Sir George Marney (of Layer de la Haye) killed the dragon with his lance. The church in Wormingford (which is dedicated to St Andrew) has a stain glass window depicting this scene.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wormingford

Wormingford has a post office and a public house and restaurant called The Crown.

Cmdr_Bond

Maybe the man running means CHASE

wikipedia wrote:

Legally, only the crown can have a forest, a subject could only have chases.

wikipedia wrote:

In the United Kingdom, a chase is a type of common land used for hunting to which there are no specifically designated officers and laws, but there are reserved hunting rights for one or more persons.[1] Similarly, a Royal Chase is a type of Crown Estate by the same description, but where certain rights are reserved for a member of the British Royal Family. Chases and Royal Chases are beneath the status of forests and Royal Forests respectively.

A chase to which are attached particular officers and laws are properly called forests; The so-called deer forests in Scotland are properly speaking chases, whilst Cannock Chase in Staffordshire is properly a Royal Forest.[2] Examples of a chases in England include the Wyre Forest and Malvern Forest in Worcestershire and Pensnett Chase near Dudley.

According to A History of the County of Middlesex (1911), a chase was, "like a forest, uninclosed, and only defined by metes and bounds; but it could be held by a subject. Offences committed therein were, as a rule, punishable by the common law and not by forest jurisdiction."[3]

msjs_2

Hi,

Another n00b here! This is my thoughts so far:

In 92 hrh saw a wet place,
With vehicles and vocals and weights you must trace.

Carsington Water

You're soon to discover a great source of pain,
A fine way to travel, but what is it's name?

Ambergate, Hurt Arms. Ambergate used to be called Toadmoor & is on the Cromford Canal.

This creature will show you a street in the pete,
Continue the rhyme to find somewhere to meet.

Peat moorland?
Toad + the P in pete = adopt (adopted road?)
Frog & toad rhyming slang for road.
The road/canal/railway from Ambergate leads to Matlock & Matlock means "meeting place under/by the oak"

The cr and p room, use c without c,
To find the old wood where a man runs, you'll see.

Cromford & a Pump Room are in Matlock. Take the C away & you get Romford.

Harold Wood is in Romford and...






I'm spent :rotfl:

SheepAreEvil

sorry newbie question
Do the clues stay in the same area or can we end up the other side of the country?
as my thoughts are leading me all over the uk.

bargainhuntergal

SheepAreEvil wrote: »

sorry newbie question
Do the clues stay in the same area or can we end up the other side of the country?
as my thoughts are leading me all over the uk.

You could end up anywhere in the UK :eek: :rotfl:

I'm not sure if you've already looked or not, but if not, it might be worth having a nosy at the old ones under 'Completed Games' at the top to see what they've involved before.

ClosingTime

Thats very interesting msjs! :beer:

Even though I like the logic on couplet 4,it dosent seem to lead us to an answer of 5,5,6.Searched round romford etc and continue to do so.

Love Matlock for the 3rd couplet,Cant believe we havent looked for the meaning b4!


Hope yr 2nd post is as good as yr 1st!!

SheepAreEvil

Thanks barginhunter I did look at a few but wasn't sure where all the places were. I was being a bit lazy and not wanting to do research on ones already completed.

I've been sticking with my dragon theory rather than toad, although i did look at that before but didn't think about looking for rhyming slang.

So i've been looking at alternative words
Dragon = basilisk, hydra, wyvern, snake, satan, worm, wurm, tarragon
pete = peter from the greek petra, petros, stone or rock
and a real leap pete = parsley from petersil etc

and then i looked for rhymes and folk songs that have places to meet (not surprisingly at one point i ended up in scarborough) but i'm getting nowhere my next idea is old english words for wood.
Basically i'm stuck

Cmdr_Bond

Whats bugging me is continue the rhyme - what exactly does that mean?

Once Frog and Toad = Road was mentioned, I thought could in the pete mean Pete Tong = Wrong?

there is a tong street in bradford ???

Cmdr_Bond

if continue the rhyme means to continue the word rhyme, then I have come up with the Rhymer's Club that used to meet at the Cheshire Cheese in Fleet Street, don't know how that fits though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhymers'_Club