Event Details

Date:	11th October 1998, Start Time 2:15pm
Location:	The Barley Mow, Englefield Green, Egham, Surrey
Organisers:	Cheryl Woodhouse & Peter Jagger
Walk Distance:	3½ miles (5½ Km)

Directions 

Englefield Green is a short distance west of Egham, which itself is just off the M25 at junction 13. From A30 (Egham Hill), take St. Judes Road turning (opposite the Royal Holloway & Bedford New College) heading north. A little over ½ mile, turn left into Barley Mow Road & Northcroft Road. Very shortly, The Barley Mow is on the left.

Route & Question Sheet 

STARTERS 
All answers visible when standing in front of the pub.

1.	Earthy? Blow Me!
2.	Fire! He blew him away!
3.	Eden's first couple blew it, When they turned round they knew it.

STAGE I 
Cross the road from the pub and turn left along the road. At five posts on the right, follow path across the green, then on through trees to crossroads.

4.	Terrestrials like the B.B.C. Are not enough for this closet TV.
5.	Ground immobilises in short supply.
6.	Folk donut sit on the ground Since the wind blew me down.

STAGE II 
Cross Bishopsgate Road and St Judes Road to Coopers Hill Lane. (Cross the roads carefully. There are no clues before Coopers Hill Lane.) Follow Coopers Hill Lane then right at Brunel Runnymede Campus along to Air Forces Memorial. The stage ends before the Air Forces Memorial. (It's worthwhile to take twenty minutes or so to look at the Memorial. The view from the top is superb. There are, of course, no clues in the Memorial or the grounds.)

7.	"Give it 'ere" might be said To a bear with sore head
8.	Electric car, any colour you like...
9.	Is the video that's made here called "Privates on Parade"?

STAGE III 
Stage starts after leaving Air Forces Memorial. Continue along road past Royal Holloway Kingswood Hall to track. At gate turn left through kissing gate and follow footpath down hill. Keep to main footpath (wide steps down with wooden risers) to wooden fence at edge of wood.

10.	Our Henry's rise or fall could be slippery (H. Slipper loses cool, perhaps)
11.	It's coloured bright and points the way But "You go first!", it's bound to say.

STAGE IV
Through kissing gate in fence. Bear left diagonally across field and up hill towards wooden seat in open ground. Bear right away from woods along footpath passing another seat to gate. Follow track round to left. Stage ends at start of made up road.

12.	How Earth is transformed to take to the air?
13.	How a hoplite might hop lightly? (One of Leonidas’s 300 at Thermopylae.)
14.	Large animal goes into a pub for a pint. The barman says "Did you know we've got a whisky named after you?" The animal says "What? Eric?"

STAGE V 
Follow tarmac track to main road (Priest Hill). The road can be quite busy. Cross the road carefully and turn left up hill. Stage ends at Castle Hill Road. There are no clues on the main road section of this stage.

15.	Could be hard, clay or lawn Where a French oath was sworn.
16.	When you pale and tire, don't expire. Put it to use. Call a truce.
17.	An engineering establishment's earthy sapper?

STAGE VI 
Cross Castle Hill Road and turn right along pavement. When pavement runs out, cross again and continue to cross roads. Stage ends at Ham Lane.

18.	The way Eric should go ...
19.	... to make a profit?

STAGE VII
Follow Ham Lane then rough track to house and public footpath sign.

20.	Does he get a red nose When the cold north wind blows?
21.	Eric's friend may be called Lloyd Banks.
22.	Look out for this barker (They don't come much darker).

STAGE VIII
Left onto public footpath. Keep left between hedge and cordon/fence then over stile. Cross field diagonally then over second stile and over stream by bridge, then soon over a third stile then through narrow gate to path and then to road. Cross road and turn left to return to the pub.

23.	Alleged bomber and Lady P's chauffeur in high-class swordplay: county level
24.	Was Brunel here engaged on one of his less ambitious projects?
25.	Right and left; but both pro European at ground level.

Answers 

1) The Barley Mow (anag.)
2) Two duellers on pub sign
3) Garden at Rear
4) Satellite dish above public toilet
5) Earth Anchors Ltd. Rootfast
6) Seat made from storm felled tree trunk
7) Andover Pudsey on lamp post
8) AC Ford on lamp post
9) TV surveillance warning on public toilet
10) Coopers Hill Slopes
11) Yellow arrow footpath sign
12) Heathrow (anag.) airport visible in distance
13) The Spartan Gate
14) White Horse on a weather vane
15) Tennis Court
16) White Flag
17) Brunel University Private Grounds
18) Permitted Horse Route sign
19) Horse Margin sign
20) Reindeer on a weather vane
21) Statue of Black Horse
22) Black dog's head on security firm's sign
23) McVeigh Parker quality fencing - Berks and Kent
24) Model railway layout in back garden
25) Clarksteel manhole cover