Dorset

Episode 4.9
20 February 1986

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Contestants

Margaret and Rob Vernon, primary school teacher and geologist respectively from Wakefield, Yorkshire

Hint to the Treasure

The treasure will show you’ve passed with flying colours

Start Position

Clue 1	Where the defender of Mafeking pitched camp, his successors have blazed a trail. So be prepared! 2
Leads to	Brownsea Island – at the end of the Scouts’ trail

Clue 2	At the scene of the deed that made an unready boy king, take a square look at a martyr’s memorial.
Leads to	Corfe Castle – on a memorial to Edward the martyr in the village square

Clue 3	Rule Britannia! Pass over the composer for a fly past the powerful one that’s on top of the waves.
Leads to	Wareham Channel – the clue is written on top of a power boat dashing up the channel

Clue 4	Caterpillar country near A C Shaw’s home. Your alien Panther is flanked by Tigers.
Leads to	Bovington Tank Museum – on a World War II German Panther tank

Clue 5	Between the Puddles and the Piddle Lived the Martyns, man and boy Amid the leaves yew’ll solve this riddle, Close by the House of Joy.
Leads to	Athelhampton House – a toy parrot hidden in a yew tree in the formal garden

Result

The contestants ran out of time on the final clue

Notes

Anneka teased the contestants as she was describing her location in the introduction while the helicopter filmed her from the air:

Anneka:	Well, Treasure Hunt has gone truly international and exotic this week. I'm standing there looking out to deep blue, blue seas, the surf crashing onto miles and miles of golden sand, studded with swaying palm trees, under the hot blazing tropical sun. Where else could I be but Hawaii?
Kenneth:	Hawaii?
Anneka:	Or... Dorset! That's where we are.

This clue led to a Scout and Guide camp on Brownsea Island, and Annie’s chase around the circular trail.

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