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With the combined knowledge of the STW I thought we could give this little quiz a go and save doing any work this morning.
from here:
It's time for a competition and some national park fun!
Below are 10 clues to locations than can be found in the UKs national parks. All you have to do it give us the answers to the clues. Please message us privately with your answer list to enter.
You are welcome to share this post and/or tag people who might be interested in entering or able to help you.
Without giving away the answers let us know how many you've worked out, and which ones you're struggling with in the comments below. The winner will be the person with the most correct answers, and will win a map print of choice. Names will be drawn from a hat in the event of an equal top score.
The winner will be announced next Monday (the 16th).
Thanks and good luck!
1. You can find ‘his’ horticultural implement by the Ark.
2. Mr B. must have a good sense of smell.
3. If you're not careful, you’ll end up in Rio De Janeiro.
4. If the German children meet a bear in the woods, they’ll be
sure of a big surprise.
5. You could stick it in a stew, but you’ll struggle to get it in the
oven.
6. Those blue hills definitely invite adventure!
7. Publius built a great wall back in the day.
8. That red ridge is knifelike, best be careful up there.
9. Hunting is dangerous, said the King … posthumously.
10.Wallace gives thanks to the French Cistercian monks for
their delicious production.
UK national parks: Brecon Beacons, Broads, Cairngorms, Dartmoor, Exmoor, Lake District, Loch Lomond and the Trossachs, New Forest, Northumberland, North York Moors, Peak District, Pembrokeshire Coast, Snowdonia, South Downs, Yorkshire Dales.
Good Luck!
got at least one I think. Are we posting answers on here or keeping them to ourselves?
yeh post em up here, we can knock 'em off together. I can't get any 😩
4 = peak district (Kinder)
10 = Yorkshire Dales (Wensleydale)
In which case: 8 is Snowdonia
1 is the Lakes (Jack's Rake, Pavey Ark).
4 = peak district (Kinder)
Do they need something a bit more specific - that's the German children, what about the rest of the clue?
9 is New Forest (King arrowed accidentally http://www.new-forest-national-park.com/rufus-stone.html)
Oh, and Publius was Hadrian's first name
Publius Aelius Hadrianus
So 7. is Northumberland?
Do they need something a bit more specific – that’s the German children, what about the rest of the clue?
Oh - yeah possibly - if you go down to the woods today/teddy bears picnic - kinder downfall
7. is Northumberland but the 'back in the day' I think must be a clue to a specific location (on the wall somewhere?)
OK with facts, shite at cryptic/lateral thinking although love it when people explain it to me.
2 - Bowerman's Nose, Dartmoor?
6 is Cairngorms.
8 is Crib Goch
6 - Presumably Pembrokeshire (Preseli Hills - Bluestone)
I'm pretty sure 3 will be South Downs, because of the Flying Down to Rio film, but can't put my finger on the exact location!
6 – Presumably Pembrokeshire (Preseli Hills – Bluestone)
Cairngorm means blue hill. Literally, blue pile of stones.
My son got me the South Downs middle Earth Map for my birthday - very good it is 🙂
Other than that I've nothing to add to the thread!
Please message us privately with your answer list to enter.
No one entering then, prize looks safe...
Is 8 not Sharp Edge (Lake District)
I'm seriously rubbish at cryptic stuff. Someone posts the answer and I see it straight away, but I rarely ever see the answer myself.
No wonder I was confused. I thought all the clues were supposed to identify one NP.
Is 8 not Sharp Edge (Lake District)
No. Red Ridge is the literal translation of Crib Goch which is described as a knife edged walk/climb on Snowdon. So the answer must be Snowdonia as that is where it is.
6 is Cairngorms
Don't get me started!!!!
So the answer must be Snowdonia as that is where it is.
No, if you read the original link they said "Below are 10 clues to locations than can be found in the UKs national parks"
So the answer isn't the park, it's eg: Crib Goch, or The Rufus Stone, or Bowerman's Nose, etc.
I thought all the clues were supposed to identify one NP.
I did at first due to the OP's subject having it in singular! Then I realised from the clues that it couldn't be! 🙂
"locations than can be found in the UKs national parks" - which is a nonsensical sentence. No wonder we're all confused! 😆
[i]Someone posts the answer and I see it straight away[/i]
Yeah! I'm like that - once I read the answer I know it!
No, if you read the original link they said “Below are 10 clues to locations than can be found in the UKs national parks”
Well it actually asks for "the answers to the clues" which isn't really a thing 🙂 but I take the point
6 seems more generic than some of the others, happy with Cairngorms but where in the Cairngorms? Scotroutes?
5 got me wondering about the devils beef tub, but that's not in a NP.
I'd also suggest that the quiz hasn't been set by a master crossword compiler...... so clues might not be as clever as some think.
10 - Buckfast Abbey (Dartmoor) ?
6 seems more generic than some of the others, happy with Cairngorms but where in the Cairngorms?
Well, that's the thing. There's really only one "blue hill" and that is Carn Gorm. Of course, the bloody map makers got it all wrong and called the mountain range "The Cairngorms". The gaelic is Am Monadh Ruadh, ruadh = red.
10 – Buckfast Abbey (Dartmoor) ?
Pretty sure we already think that's 'Wensleydale!'
(Wallace off W & Gromit; plus the monks https://www.britainexpress.com/attractions.htm?attraction=915 )
In the 12th century, a group of Cistercian monks settled in Wensleydale and developed a technique for making a soft, crumbly cheese. The technique was carried on and developed by local farmers' wives over centuries and became a local tradition. It was not until 1897 that the first official creamery opened in Hawes to produce Wensleydale cheese in large quantities for sale outside the area.