Directions

Nat Grid Ref: TQ217471

The Seven Stars is on the corner of Bunce Common Road and Tapners Road at Dawes Green, which is at the northern end of Leigh village. Bus services to Leigh are poor, particularly at weekends and private car is the most practical means of getting there.

The pub does not allow children in the bar but there is an adequate garden. Lunches are available but it can get busy on a sunny Sunday lunchtime (and the restaurant does allow children).

The Seven Stars is a listed building but suffered a disastrous fire last year. The resoration has been very good and if it were not for the pictures in the lobby, you might not realise what had happened.

There is live jazz music on some Sunday evenings.

Route & Question Sheet

STARTERS
Answers can be seen in Front of The Seven Stars.

1.	Good heavens! there's a vastness there
2.	Resentful old birds pass wind - that'll be a wallbanger
3.	Substance guarantee Importance for all to see

STAGE I
From pub, cross road and turn left. Walk starts at the Bunce Common Road sign. Follow road right, past school, until Clayhill Road (just past The Plough) where stage ends.

4.	Generous weed has psychedelic property
5.	Spare the rod please, We're not on the seven seas
6.	EFGHIJKLMNOPQR

STAGE II 
Left, cross Smallshill Road, over village green passing the pump. Through churchyard gate, keeping church to left (no answers on memorial stones) and out along alleyway on far side to stile. Over stile and diagonally right across field. Follow path ahead, crossing stream and up beside field on far side. Stage ends at stile on left.

7.	Those canny Scots have always known The special power of stone
8.	There is no news Of the direction my friend doth choose
9.	The sounds that long ago Ended Caroline's famous show

STAGE III 
Over stile and right, along side of field, with hedge on right. At end of field (marked by fence), over stile on right then left along grassy trackway which soon leads to a collection of gates. Through gate ahead then diagonally right across field to stile on far side where stage ends.

10.	Germany chalks up another success To help us to bar access
11.	Toff engaged within criminal trade See back to front, alternately played

STAGE IV
Over (wobbly) stile and continue across field to stile in far left corner. Over stile and up side of field keeping trees/fence on left. By stile (at top of hill) turn right, passing concrete post on far side of field. Stage ends at stile nearby (to left).

12.	Agatha's first mysterious affair Has you climbing in the air
13.	Test the guns old and new This is still Pythagoras' view

STAGE V
Over stile, crossing field to stile in far right hand corner. Over stile, down next field and exit to road in lower right corner. Turn left along road. Stage ends at end of road (T-junction).

14.	After the Dutch party, John came back On a dirty British coaster with a salt-caked smoke stack
15.	Maybe this simple codger Was a jammy dodger

STAGE VI
Cross main road and turn left. Continue on right hand side of road (from where all answers can be seen) until footpath on right (opposite The Firs). Turn right along side of field to track at far side, where stage ends.

16.	Encouragement for those who were big (but not any more) The deal is dodgy - you're not in a store
17.	When reading the score Not just loud - it's even more
18.	Distressed crew meets water regulator

STAGE VII
Turn right along track, following past and round hedge, past dilapidated barn until reaching a bridge (known locally as The Hammer Bridge). Continue over bridge and on between fields (through gates, over stiles etc.) until reaching road where stage ends.

19.	Here's a clew to test you a bit Especially as it's bound with cutting wit
20.	Bob rid genetic material of crossover structures
21.	Measure of how The sheep would vote now

STAGE VIII
Cross road (right & left) and follow footpath ahead up steps and along left hand side of field. At end of trees on left, continue ahead to top left hand corner of field to stile in corner where stage ends.

22.	You've arrived late on this glorious day The first are already blown away!
23.	Growing round about, sometimes sown

STAGE IX
Over stile and ahead between trees and fence until reaching road. Turn right along pavement. Walk ends at the letterbox opposite The Seven Stars.

24.	It's no good swearing and shouting like that - you still won't solve this clue!
25.	Quiz walkers - any place they would grace A fine example - just ace!

Young Walkers Questions

All stages and directions are as the walk above.

STARTER
a.	Fail to get this clue And we'll lock you up Then throw things at you!

STAGE I
b.	Benny and the gang can't believe that He's wearing the wrong hat!

STAGE II
c.	How many times did Leigh win the Best Kept Village competition?
d.	How many concrete steps do you have to climb?

STAGE III
e.	How many different animals did you see on this stage (name them!)

STAGE IV
f.	Pointing the way again and again What colour is the shout of pain?

STAGE V
g.	7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1…… what comes next?

STAGE VI
.	Most of this stage is along a busy road. There are no clues for you here. Please be very careful.

STAGE VII
h.	Something with a knife or saw you must not do It's on a stile - and there's a measurement too!

STAGE VIII
i.	This is where the animals come to drink for free But how does it describe a beverage for you and me?

STAGE IX
j.	Oh you do look so nice Where can you see yourself twice?

Answers

1. The Seven Stars (anagram)
2. Harveys Traditional Draught Sussex Bitter - advert
3. Security Matters - on alarm
4. Dawes Green House (anagram)
5. Boat in school playground
6. EIIR on letterbox
7. Cairn Energy - sponsors of Best Kept Village Competition, 1996 - see on village pump
8. Weather cock (on church spire)
9. 1FM on bolt (Caroline - former pirate radio station)
10. Weissenfels padlock on gate manufactured by British Gates
11. Fence (see, alternately, last and first letters of each word)
12. Stiles (Agatha Christie's first novel "A Mysterious Affair at Styles")
13. Ordnance Survey Triangulation Station
14. Masefield - makers name on orange ballcock in trough (poem: Cargoes by John Masefield, see below)
15. Simon-Hartley (makers name on vent pipe)
16. "Eggs", "ex-large", "at back door" - from advertising sign outside house
17. FF - on padlock (FF = fortissimo = doubly loud)
18. ESWC METER - on manhole cover (anagram "crew meets")
19. Coil of barbed wire
20. Bridge (hidden: Bob rid genetic)
21. Swing (hanging from tree in field)
22. Label on a post by the stile: "Game Cock 2" followed by several words (incl. pheasant, partridge) with the first letters missing (apparently shot away)
23. Grass (first letter each word)
24. Railing
25. Club (as on pack of cards) cut into wooden gate

Young Walker Answers

a. Stocks (on pub lawn)
b. Top Cat is wearing a top hat - on a sign
c. 5 (1978, 1983, 1987, 1992, 1996) - on the village pump
d. 3 (2 on near side of bridge, 1 on other)
e.
f. Yell-ow (arrows)
g. 50 (the numbers on telegraph poles count down then the next is 50)
h. CUT (metal plate on stile tread says "DO NOT CUT" and has a measurement of 7' 11¼")
i. Trough (or T - rough)
j. Two mirrors in a garden

Cargoes by John Masefield

Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir,
Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine,
With a cargo of ivory,
And apes and peacocks,
Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine.

Stately Spanish galleon coming from the Isthmus,
Dipping through the Tropics by the palm-green shores,
With a cargo of diamonds,
Emeralds, amythysts,
Topazes, and cinnamon, and gold moidores.

Dirty British coaster with a salt-caked smoke stack,
Butting through the Channel in the mad March days,
With a cargo of Tyne coal,
Road-rails, pig-lead,
Firewood, iron-ware, and cheap tin trays.