NORTH MORETON MYSTERY TRAIL
Welcome to the Mystery Trail! We hope that you enjoy it and perhaps find
some things in the village for the first time. You can answer all of the
questions without going onto anyone’s private land, so please keep to the
roads and other public spaces. Begin at the recreation ground.
We suggest a route, and most of the questions are in the route order, but
the answers to Q25 and Q26 may be anywhere on the route, so keep your
eyes open for them all the time.
Q1 Before you leave the recreation ground, where are dogs forbidden to go?
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Q2 So what are dogs not able to drive?
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Leave the recreation ground by the Bear Lane entrance and walk
along towards High Street
Q3 What are described as green?
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Q4 How many miles to Wallingford? ……………….
Q5 It’s certainly brill, but where is it and what does it do?
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Q6 Where is this, and why will it be less useful from now on?
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Turn right down High Street
Q7 In a particularly public place, what is this?
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Q8 Where is the squirrel?
Q9 And the heron?
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Q10 Where is this?
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Q11 What is purple? …………………………...
At the T-junction, turn left along Long Wittenham Road
Q12 Where is this?
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Q13 Another colour: what is lilac? ………………….
Q14 A special window, but which house is it on?
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Q15 Another public place: where is this?
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Q16 FORTY what, and where?
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Turn right at the green grass triangle, opposite Highmoor, and
walk all the way down Back Lane to Elm Road
Q17 Where is this, the only three-way footpath sign in the village?
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Q18 Not far from the junction of Elm Road and Wallingford Road,
where is this pig?
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Now walk along Wallingford Road towards the church
Q19 Where was the village school? .................................................
Q20 Near the church, where is this?
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Q21 In the church, who is remembered for dying on 24 July 1916?
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Q22 Also in the church, who is this (the armed knight, not the
horse)?
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Q23 And who was Ann Noyes? …………………………………
Q24 And finally at the church, where is this, and in which century
do you estimate that it was carved? (As on all the questions, the
judges’ decision is final…)
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Q25 Somewhere on the route is this, but where?
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Q26 There are a lot of names on display in the village. Where are
Al, Alf, Bert, Leo, Les and Sid?
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Q27 And, finally, the tie-breaker: without using the internet, what
is the longest word you can make using the letters of
NORTHMORETON? And can you make any other words of the
same length? Please write your answer(s) overleaf.
Word(s) from the letters NORTHMORETON
How many letters in your longest word? ……..
Please tell us your word(s) of that length: