John Cooper Quiz Walks
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Roger and Joyce present "The Abinger Amble" Sunday 29thJune 2008
from The Abinger Hatch Abinger Common, Surrey, RH5 6HZ.
Distance: 3.5 miles. NO HOUSE NAMES
LEAQUE QUESTION SHEET

Stage 1

All answers may be seen from the green between the pub and the church.

Q 1Reserve supplies?
Q 2Don't clamber over the top.
Twenty four reasons to stop.
Q 3Definitely not a very good egg.
A drunkard to the very last dreg.

Stage 2

Leaving "The Abinger Hatch" cross straight over road and walk up to gate in front of church. Ignoring gate into churchyard, turn left along "Public Footpath" and continue along edge of field with boundary wall on right. Soon pass children's play area, keep ahead across narrow road in front and climb steps to stile. Over stile and follow grassy path slightly right down field to next stile. Over this, into woods and keep ahead on main path for a long way, ignoring all turn-offs to left. Eventually reach metal gate on right at corner of field. Keep ahead on track. End stage when wire fence bordering field swings to the right.

Q 4Seen but not heard in days gone by.
But now the duties intensify.
Q 5Dangers to find,
Not in front but behind.

Stage 3

Ahead on track. Soon go through wooden kiss-gate and continue straight over nearby X tracks, now with iron railings on right. Very shortly turn left uphill on "Public Bridleway". Pause a few times (just as we did!) as you climb to the top, all the while ignoring any turn-offs. Eventually pass house on right and end stage on reaching single "Public Bridleway" pointer at road.

Q 6The carver's spelling is a joke,
Leaving animals in need of a stroke.
Q 7Not where the Rolling Stones will stash
All their surplus cash?
Q 8That famous saying's so right.
It's certainly worse than their bite!

Stage 4

No answers on starting section. Cross road, turn left, proceed to "Public Footpath" pointer post on right. CLUES START NOW. Right along path here. Eventually pass through a small brick tunnel and keep ahead to road. End stage a few yards to the right at "Courtyard House" sign.

Q 9Tear-away celebrity returns.
Q 10Extremely sibilant state.
What a two and eight!
Q 11Brickie's name on view.
From the decade of World War 2?
Q 12Symbols of The Wars,
But just for one side's cause.

Stage 5

No answers on starting section. With your back to the "Courtyard House" sign cross road and turn left. Continue to "Public Bridleway" pointer post on right. CLUES START NOW. Take this bridleway, following it between houses to nearby roadway at right angles. Right along roadway. After some distance reach wooden barrier and "Public Footpath" pointer post on left. Stay on roadway for a few yards, then at far end of next wooden barrier turn left along track into woods. End stage immediately on reaching fork in track.

Q 13Truly magnificent beast.
Watching Bambi feast?
Q 14Below the minimum wage?

Stage 6

Bear right for about 20 yards, then at next fork veer off left down track that's sunken at first. On reaching junction of five tracks simply veer off right along right-hand-most track. Quite soon, immediately after passing horizontal telegraph pole, take left fork in track. When track narrows continue downhill to garden fence. Right, then immediately left, descending to nearby "Public Bridleway" sign. Step onto roadway below and turn left. Very soon end stage at H sign 4/6 by wall.

Q 15Conifers found
All around.
Q 16European immigrant there-abouts.
Q 17A sort of spy tries
A worker's disguise.

Stage 7

Continue past "Stephan Langton" pub (or stop for a drink if thirsty!). Soon pass beside lake and reach main road. Straight over and continue down past red post-box and cottage on right. Now stay on track, eventually passing telegraph pole marked "1" on right. (Note: Look out now for nearby wooden shed on left. One of the topmost wooden slats has a QW arrow in white chalk pointing back the way you've come. We put that there on 17thJuly 1994 on our quizwalk from the "Wotton Hatch" pub!) Keep ahead until reaching stone bridge on left. Left over bridge, through wooden kiss-gate and follow path to narrow roadway and two pointer "Public Footpath" post.

Q 18Poets? In a way it is clear
They could take it easy here.
Q 19Unlike the other ones seen today
This fabulous creature's fired in clay.
Q 20The change of function's quite overt.
No dirty dishes, simply dirt.

Stage 8

Left up narrow roadway. Continue to "Pugs Corner" at main road. Right on road for a couple of yards, then ignore trackway to "Mundies" and veer slightly right along narrow path to right of road. Continue until 5 barred gate appears on right. Keep ahead down sunken track in front and end stage at main road.

Q 21Perched at the top
For some to drop?
Q 22If the London stretch was to suffer pollution
Boris would surely face retribution.

Stage 9

No answers on starting section. Right along main road, staying on right-hand side. Soon cross over to side road on left. CLUES START NOW. Continue up side road, follow it past "The Glebe House", and proceed to road at right angles. Turn right and end stage when level with "The Abinger Hatch" pub sign on right.

Q 23In use over the pond
So the students don't abscond?
Q 24Sheila and Jean and Susan and Rita
Simon and Matthew and Paul and Peter
Donald and Guy and George and Kim
Roy and Iain and finally Jim.
Q 25Voter's cop-out?

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