North Yorkshire – North York Moors
North Yorkshire – North York Moors |
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Episode 5.14
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| Contestants | Peggy Young, retired housewife, and her daughter Sue Lewis, PE teacher. |
| Hint to the Treasure | It could be the glory of a Yorkshire garden |
| Start Position | On Cleveland Way, near Boltby 1 |
| Clue 1 | Near a bottomless lake, look for a mixture of wing and fin and find a Dokter who uses thermals. 2 |
| Leads to | Sutton Bank – Yorkshire Gliding Club, in cockpit of Henry Dokter’s motorised glider, which flies Anneka to clue 2 |
| Clue 2 | Use a horse to find a mouse In a public type of house. Where Shandy is a best-seller, seek out Thompson’s from the wood. 3 |
| Leads to | Coxwold – in Fauconberg Arms pub, under oak bar stool carved by Thompson of Kilburn |
| Clue 3 | Where Harold of Huyton took a title, look south-east of the quire for another pillar of the establishment. 4 |
| Leads to | Rievaulx Abbey – in a crevice in a stone pillar |
| Clue 4 | In the home town of Bobby Shafto’s bride, look out for Juvenal’s rare bird and try your luck with a cornet. 5 |
| Leads to | Helmsley – on a sheet of a cornet player’s music in a brass band outside the Black Swan pub |
| Clue 5 | North-east to a reminder of a cricketing knight of the shire, where a collection of crucks holds a springtime feature Robert Herrick sang of. 6 |
| Leads to | Hutton-le-Hole – white rose on maypole in Ryedale Open Air Folk Museum 7 |
| Result | The contestants won the treasure with 34 seconds to spare |
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| 1 | At the start, Anneka announces that the crew are rather “worse for wear” due to a party the previous night. She keeps referring to this throughout the programme. |
| 2 | Goremire Lake, near Sutton Bank, is reputed to be bottomless. On the ridge at the top of Sutton Bank is a gliding school. |
| 3 | After the motorised glider lands in a field about a mile from the village of Coxwold, Keith picks up Anneka and the crew again. They land near the church and then ride on the back of a tractor and trailer which races (!) the short distance to the Fauconberg Arms public house. Robert Thompson, “The Mouseman of Kilburn”, was a woodcarver who became famous for his oak furniture which was trademarked with a carved mouse in a discreet place. |
| 4 | Harold Wilson, who was MP for Huyton in Liverpool, took the title Baron Wilson of Rievaulx when he entered the House of Lords after being created a life peer. |
| 5 | “Bonny Bobby Shafto” (Robert Shafto, a former MP of Durham) married Anne Duncombe of Helmsley. The Roman poet Juvenal wrote of “a rare bird upon the earth, and exceedingly like a black swan”. |
| 6 | The cricketing knight was Sir Len Hutton. Crucks are the beams which support the roof of a large barn alongside the field in which the maypole stands. Robert Herrick, a 17th century poet, wrote a song “The Maypole”. |
| 7 | When Anneka lands at Hutton-le-Hole and asks for directions to the Ryedale Folk Museum, she is shown a shortcut... through someone’s house and garden. At that point she is offered a cup of tea and asked to pose for photos! Since she is still frantically searching for the treasure, she politely but firmly refuses! |
Information © David Hodges, 2003, with corrections by Martin Underwood, 2011
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