Wiltshire
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Episode 1.6
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| Contestants | Greville Spratt, retired financier, and Tony Condon, retired stockbroker; friends and next door neighbours from Haslemere, Surrey |
| Start Position | Castle Combe |
| Clue 1 | On MoD territory near Corsham, you must locate and checkmate a Saladin and get a clue from the turret. 1 |
| Leads to | HMS Royal Arthur, Corsham – note in barrel of Saladin armoured vehicle |
| Clue 2 | In a barn in a National Trust village there is a portrait (by a Frenchman) of the man who made the adjacent historic picture of a window in his Abbey. Their guardian has a sort of SLR for you. 2 |
| Leads to | Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock – miniature model of SLR camera on keyring |
| Clue 3 | Use the door beneath the window, then the Abbess’s winding stair, up to where there is a clue in a Regency sofa. 3 |
| Leads to | Lacock Abbey – note under cushion on Regency sofa |
| Clue 4 | Chalk up one in the stone eye of a noble quad who neither hunts nor races and you’ll find a tiny golden descendant. 4 |
| Leads to | Cherhill white horse – small pendant in its eye |
| Clue 5 | In a small black church in Sandy Lane you’ll find an even smaller church beneath a church. 5 |
| Leads to | St Nicholas’s Church, Sandy Lane – tiny model of church under hassock on one of the pews |
| Result | The contestants ran out of time as Annie searched for the treasure in the church. |
| Notes | |
| 1 | When Annie asks if ‘MoD’ means Ministry of Defence, Tony replies, “Yaah, darling”. |
| 2 | Having decided that the clue is somewhere in Lacock, Tony directs Annie. “Tithe barn... bloody great thing”, he tells her. The barn houses a museum to pioneer photographer William Henry Fox Talbot. Because of the military connection in the previous clue, Greville is convinced that SLR means ‘self loading rifle’ [in this case, it’s a single lens reflex camera]. With a little help from one of the museum staff, Annie eventually finds a Daguerrotype photograph of Fox Talbot in a display case, and is given the SLR keyring. |
| 3 | ‘The window’ refers to a window in adjacent Lacock Abbey which was the subject of Fox Talbot’s earliest photograph. |
| 4 | The helicopter deposits Annie at the top of the hill, and Graham tracks her from the air as she runs down to the white horse. |
| 5 | “Where the hell’s Sandy Lane?” Tony asks. The hassock hiding the clue has a picture of a church embroidered on it. |
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