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Sample Treasure Hunt on foot

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Stephen Whetstone

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If you agree to the above, the treasure hunt starts outside the Tourist Information Centre on York Street.

Throughout the hunt you will see extra information written in italics. Whilst this does not form part of the instructions it is intended to make your

journey more interesting. Any detours you make to explore the surrounding sights en route should be retraced before continuing the hunt where you

left off.

Tourist Information Centre

With our backs to the door of the Tourist Information Centre we cross the square

towards the Abbey.

1	Which court sounds as if it used to be held at 41½?

We continue to walk around the Abbey in a clockwise direction.

Bath Abbey is still one of Bath's parish churches on the site on which Christian

worship has taken place for over a thousand years.

Bath Abbey

2	What did Catherine Hollingworth pioneer?

3	Are we on safari? What coloured lion do we see lurking to our left?

4	When did Elizabeth Court win the Ministry of Housing and Local Government Award?

We now circle Orange Grove in an anticlockwise direction.

5	Where is the nearest public telephone situated?

6	Where was John Braithwaite born on 21 January 1817?

7	When was the first English Parliament meeting at Westminster?

Having completed the circuit, we turn right along High Street.

8	Which letters lie between CAL and ACM

9	What implement, besides a pen, did Thomas Paine use in pursuit of American Independence?

We bear to the left of Saint Michael with Saint Paul Church and turn left along

Green Street.

10	Who opened the suspension bridge on Empire Day 1913?

Were we to carry straight on we would arrive at the Bath Postal Museum.

The museum explores the history of the post, the British post-box and Post

Office uniforms.

If we carry on past the Postal Museum, and bear right along The Paragon, we

will arrive at The Building of Bath Museum. The museum explains how and why Bath was built, decorated and lived in and how in a period of 70 years Bath developed from a small provincial spa to being the most fashionable place, outside of London.

At the end of Green Street, we turn left along Old Bond Street.

11	In what year was Sir Edward MacColl born?

We keep to the right along Old Bond Street.

12	When was the boys club built?

We turn right at the T junction along Upper Borough Walls. We then take the first

turn to our right (opposite Parsonage Lane) and follow Trim Street as it turns to the left.

13	If the weather vane is anything to go by what king of eggs will we find at the Tolbooth (Jack would recognise them)?

We turn right, through the Archway, along Queen Street.

14	In which century was the church built?

We turn left along Wood Street. When we reach Queen Square, turn right.

If we were to continue along this side of the square and carry straight on along

Gay Street, we would come to The Jane Austen Centre. The centre provides a

permanent exhibition which tells the story of Jane's Bath experience - the effect that living here had on her and her writing.

15	What was used as an Auxiliary Hospital during the First World War?

We do not proceed further round the square but cross the road and turn to

our left.

16	Which famous Botanist lived here?

We leave the square and continue along Barton Street.

17	When was Shire Hall restored?

We continue straight on as the road changes its name to Sawclose.

18	What should we be able to see from the corner of Pope Carr Road?

19	Who rules the waves by the Zebra crossing?

20	Which Roman Emperor was proclaimed in York in A.D. 306

We continue straight on before turning left through the gardens, signposted to

the Roman Baths and Pump Room.

21	When was the oldest surviving row of houses in York built?

We turn right along Hot Bath Street.

22	What is the archway made of?

We now turn left between the colonnades, along Bath Street.

23	If you were feeling peckish, where might you consider looking for some bread or cakes?

The Pump Room

24	Who did Michael Marks meet along here?

25	How was Centenary Bridge named?

We turn right along Stall Street.

26	Which King was on the throne in 1939?

We turn left along Abbeygate Street.

27	How many sails does the boat sailing under the hotel have?

We follow the road as it bends through the archway.

View through archway

28	The chamber that stood over the Abbey gate that stood near here was probably part of what?

We bear to the right across the square and leave by way of Church Street.

When we reach the end of Church Street, the Tourist Information Centre

is directly ahead.

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