Wiltshire

Episode 6.8
7 April 1988




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Contestants Ann Mitchell, health board domestic services manager, and friend James Williamson, area agricultural advisor; both from Stornoway, Isle of Lewis.
Hint to the Treasure The jewel in the crown
Start Position Stonehenge 1
Clue 1 Plainly west to a Borders hill, where Annie needs a Scimitar to capture Milan.
Leads to Berwick Down, Salisbury Plain – Anneka participates in a Army exercise and retrieves clue from ‘captured’ armoured vehicle
Clue 2 Down a river with a county name, to a house where Old Rowley hid, and tea with Madam Butterfly.
Leads to Heale House – with lady in Japanese tea house
Clue 3 In Sarum, step into a Poore man’s dream, and susurrantly seek out the junior cantor.
Leads to Salisbury Cathedral – with chorister
Clue 4 By Pembroke’s pile, get weaving Curry-style. The clue looms above the Number Six creel.
Leads to Wilton Carpet Factory – on creel number six in weaving shed
Clue 5 Sort this out, O TV-fan: enlist with the posted postmen to chalk up a victory.
Leads to Fovant Badges – tiara on regimental badge cut into chalk down
Result The contestants won the treasure with 13 seconds to spare


Notes
1 While she was at Stonehenge, Anneka said that the programme was recorded “two days after the [1987] summer solstice”.