Gloucestershire – Cotswolds
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Episode 6.11
28 April 1988
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| Contestants |
Margaret Lediard, catering business owner, and her husband
Chris, model shop owner; both from Morpeth |
| Hint to the Treasure |
It’s no short measure |
| Clue 1 |
Head south-west towards a musical link with the Planets,
and above the Cloud watch this space – for Longfellow’s strange device,
perhaps! |
| Leads to |
Cleeve Hill –
on banner (Longfellow’s ‘strange device’) towed by light aircraft |
| Clue 2 |
On a Parr with Blandings: look for a field or, two bends
gules. |
| Leads to |
Sudeley Castle
(birthplace of Katherine Parr) – on shield of ‘knight’ competing in mock medieval tournament |
| Clue 3 |
At a Power-point for Jacobs and Old Spots, Billboy will
put Annie on the horns of a dilemma. |
| Leads to |
Guiting Power – with Billboy the bull in the Cotswold
Farm Park rare breeds farm |
| Clue 4 |
An Aquatic rookery in Little Venice, and royalty on the
rocks? Sounds fishy. |
| Leads to |
Bourton-on-the-Water – on tray of fish in penguin enclosure
in Birdland |
| Clue 5 |
After a swell flight, an academic has a head start in
a race for a yard in a tun |
| Leads to |
Donnington Brewery,
Stow-on-the-Wold – yard of ale in Mash Tun |
| Result |
The contestants won the treasure with 2 minutes 3 seconds
to spare. They also won the bonus magnum of champagne when cameraman Graham
drank the yard of ale. |
| Notes |
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This episode was filmed on 18 June 1987. |
Information © David Hodges, 2003, with corrections by Martin Underwood, 2010
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2015
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