The Great Castor and Ailsworth Millennium Treasure Hunt
Friday 9th June 2000 from 6 p.m. £2 per team entry
Team Name: ___________________________________
Start Time: _________p.m. Finish Time: _________p.m.
Total Time: _______hours _______ minutes
Score for Treasure Hunt: ______ out of 36
Score for Scavenger Hunt: ______ out of 10
Total Score: _______ out of 46
Position: _______ out of ______
Follow the clues in the fastest possible time! You earn 1 point for each correct answer. Don’t forget to collect the items in the “Scavenger Hunt” list (on the back) on the way. You may find you have to cross the road a few times - please be very careful! Please do not enter private property on your travels. Thank you and good luck!!
When leaving the school field proceed towards TEPEROBROUGH
1. Number “For Whom the Bell Tolls?” _____________________
This cottage was once the village post-office - you can see the original doorway lintel between the front windows.
2. What links No 37 with Harrods boss?
3. Between what times would Charlie not be able to quench his thirst on a Friday afternoon?
The barn over the road was once a blacksmith’s shop owned by Mr Chappell.
Turn into STILL SHOCK and up
4. What age was William Berridge when he died in 1872? _________
5. What fraction is the fire? _____________
6. What is the last resting place before the final one? ___________________
Fire! Fire! This was where clue 4 is now!Note the original herringbone patterned Roman wall on your right.
Turn left through gate and first right after the bird.
7. What day and month did Thomas Bate die in 1770? ________________
With your back to the tomb in this clue, you can see the remains of the doorway of the “Dame School”, which preceded the “Fitzwilliam School” (now the Village Hall), for which pupils had to pay 6d a week for “firing” - to provide fuel for keeping the fires going in the school!
Continue along the path...
8. What was Edmund Artis’ wife called? _______________________
“Artis” was an amateur archaeologist who was a steward for Lord Fitzwilliam. He uncovered the Roman Bath House in 1828 which is still under the school field. Rumour has it that he was buried upright in his coffin! John Clare (Helpston poet) often helped him with his digs - Clare’s mother, Anne Stimpson, came from Castor.
Continue past the CHROP
9. Who was the High Flyer who died for the sake of his health? ____________
Through the missing gate and follow the road...
10. Which house has the wrong colour rose and out of date venison? _________
11. How many tanks are in the underground bunker and what kind ? ________
The house you are passing on the left was once a post office.
12. On which house woodn’t the sun shine? _____________________
13. How is the alarm system attached to the wall? _________________
This is a picture of the corner shop which you pass - it has had several transformations over the years.
Turn left and diagonal...across where Castor Druids meet?
14. What is the reference number of the live-wire in the corner? ____________
This is where Castor Fire Brigade used to be. There was also a “Reading Room” (see picture) which was used as a boys’ club, for whist drives and a dentist’s surgery (twice a year)!
Turn right and follow the wall...when you reach the edge, cross the road to the hedge and continue to LET LOANS MENTAL
You can see the timbers of the old tithe barns - everyone complained when they were taken down!
15. Which house is possibly sea-worthy? __________________
16. Mutterings about custard, perhaps? ___________________
17. What does “Schrikdraad” mean? _______________________
This area of the villages used to be known as “Tweentowns”.
18. Which post does the local police-man hold? ___________________
Turn left into OLD THROW SAY
19. Two Wit 2 0. What water bird? _____________________
20. What number would you ring to keep watch? ___________________
21. Does Hamlet live here? ________________
22. What number do nervous (edgy, perhaps) animals and birds live at? ______
At junction do not go past horse and plough but towards TROUGH BE ROPE
23. Where did Charles Dickens have a character from his Tale of Two Cities captured in 1989? ________________________________
24. What number does Eddie Cochran think is heaven?____________
Village Farm is one of the oldest houses in the villages - it was a farmhouse, has a Saxon window and some old mouldings from a church (possibly Castor Church) inside.
+ —— Rd
25. How many men who couldn’t get into the horse are hidden here? ________
26. Our sleeping policeman wants information on Dr Who’s enemy. What number should you ring? __________________
+ back —— Rd
The join in the wall is the site of Manor Farm’s crew yard where cattle were kept in winter. In 1947 the farm buildings caught fire and were destroyed. Next door Village Farm was saved.
The Auxiliary Fire Service was based here and two of the men who worked on the farm were trained firemen. Tragically, the fire equipment was taken away form the farm only two months before the fire!
27. Make sure you have got Diet Guru Rosemary Connelly’s number. _______
28. Ich Dien Was? __________________
29. Where is left right? ____________________
30. Where you would find a cob’s artery? _________________
This house was the first police house in the village - the second being 29 Peterborough Road before the present one was built.
The house next door was a nursery with greenhouses across all the neighbouring land. Sadly, the house was gutted by fire and Mrs Kingston was burned to death.
31. What size is the footwear by the big trees?! _________________
32. Horse head house? _________________________________
33. VR X 3? __________________________________________
34. In which ditch could you inspect an unmarried marine mammal? _________
Opposite here was the “Fitzwilliam School” until 1947. Next door was a threshing business.
Behind the “Peterborough Road” sign was a slaughterhouse. The hole beneath was used for threading a rope through so the owner (on the path) could hold the animal while it was slaughtered.
35. Which number is a tree from the middle east? ________
36. For how long was Len a Churchwarden? _______________
Well done! You have finished!!
