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Event Details

Date:

14th October 2001, Start Time 2:15pm

Location:

The Well House Inn, Mugswell

Organisers:

Joan & Andy Wilson

Walk Distance:

2½ miles (4 Km)

Directions

Nat Grid Ref: TQ259553

Location:
From M25, junction 8 turn north along A217. After approximately 2 miles turn right into Chipstead Lane at roundabout and the Well House Inn is less than a mile, on the right.
From Sutton, take A217 south. Approximately 1 mile after the big Tadworth/Kingswood roundabout turn left (at roundabout) into Chipstead Lane. The Well House Inn is less than a mile on the right.

Public Transport:
Bus 420 from Sutton station.

Map:

Location Map (53K)

Route & Question Sheet

STARTERS 
Answers can be seen on the front of the pub.
 1. The artist shows, I really think
A healthy place to get a drink
 2. Tonal arming
 3. Lush wino Elen is confused

STAGE I 
Out of pub. up path on left, through stile, keep hedge on right. End at next stile/gate.
 4. Now feed once, for a mixed barrier
 5. A shady dealer lurks just here
But only accepts first class gear
 6. Structure held erect directly by indefinate article

STAGE II 
On to another stile/gate and down to crossing lane, cross here and follow path, gardens left, meadow right) soon cross another lane, pass Lilac Cottage. End at stile.
 7. Becomes exhausted!
How lucky!
 8. Two-fold hold
 9. No mattress here, or blanket grey
But frame to stop a getaway

STAGE III
Carry on, hedge on right, over stile or through gate, straight on, at 3-fingered sign left, then ignoring stile on right, left towards farm. End at rusty gate on left.
 10. Initially its a red letter day at Bob's family treat
 11. Truncated eastern Europeans line the route
 12. Sad bangs give confused protection

STAGE IV
Left here and straight on. At 3-fingered post on right go over or round stile, walk up, field on right, woods on left. At top left over/round stile, go diagonally across field to stile, diagonally again through metal gate, then another. In corner of field another stile, then on right a wooden gate leading on to a road, at road left. End at cross-roads.
 13. Here its support is fine
But its sadly out of line
 14. Looks like someone has been throwing stones
 15. Clone in stone?
By golly, its Dolly

STAGE V
Right up Rectory Road. Opposite entrance on right, take wooden kissing-gate on left, go diagonally across field to stile, over this, then through woods to another, and then a kissing-gate. Go diagonally left across field and end at kissing-gate.
 16. Could be mumps or neuralgia
 17. Or afternoon
 18. A Frisco spanner
 19. A stile, a head, I wood think so

STAGE VI
Go through kissing-gate, then over stile. Here left, trees on left, over another stile. At "T" junction and 3-fingered post turn left, soon kissing-gate on left, through gate, straight across field to another gate, through this and on to lane (Southerns Lane) here right and end at Field View.
 20. One shade short of a tricolour
 21. A musical mettle helps you get a grip
 22. A tabloid's reflection

STAGE VII
At Fieldview up two steps on left of house, follow path to stile. Over stile, make way diagonally right down to line of trees. Here left, follow trees on your right to stile, over stile into Pigeon House Lane and here right. At "T" left and back to pub.
 23. ? beer
 24. This is the one you've been searching for
 25. Turpin would be frustrated at this stage

Answers

1. R.J. Vinney, Well House - on pub sign
2. Alarm
3. Well House Inn (anagram)
4. Wooden fence (anagram)
5. Quality Fencing
6. S H E D (initials). Shed is supported by "A" frame
7. Seven rubber tyres on roof
8. GRIPFIX on manhole cover
9. Fence of chicken coop partially made of bed frame
10. B F T in red letters on gate
11. Cut-down telegraph poles holding wire of fence
12. Sandbags surrounding culvert
13. Sleeper supporting gatepost
14. Glasshouse with broken panes
15. Letter W on front of Parsons Cottage (double ewe)
16. Mugswell
17. IFAM on padlock
18. Golden Gate
19. Stile has the appearance of a wooden head on top
20. One white and one blue post at electric fence
21. R&B Grit
22. Mirror at side of road
23. Yale (why ale) on padlock
24. No 1 on telegraph pole
25. Empty stagecoach on weather vane over pub