Notes |
1 |
“... with a coat so grey... the fox from his lair in the
morning” are the words of a song about John Peel, the famous huntsman, who is
buried at the church at Caldbeck. |
2 |
From the air, Annie spots a man with two hounds on the east
side of the A591 near Binsey. She lands and asks if he is Jimmy Glaister. He
tells her that he is, and that his hounds will show her the way. She takes off
again, he releases the hounds, and the helicopter follows them from the air.
Eventually they run into a gorse bush (whin). Annie lands again and finds a
dog collar in the bush. |
3 |
Line 1135 of Book Four of “The Excursion”, Wordsworth’s longest
poem, says “A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract / Of inland ground, applying
to his ear / The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell”. The contestants direct
Annie to Rydal Mount, Wordsworth’s home from 1815–1850, and tell her to look
for a statue, ‘The Curious Child’, which depicts a child holding a shell to
his ear. She finds the clue, a real shell, next to the statue in the drawing
room. |
4 |
The helicopter flies south along the length of Lake Windermere,
turning slightly east as it passes over the round house on Belle Isle, halfway
down the lake. Eventually it arrives at Levens Hall, which was built around
a 13th century Pele Tower. Annie lands, runs into the garden and finds the treasure,
a toy peacock, in a topiary bird. |
5 |
There were only four clues on this hunt. |