I really enjoy visiting Wellington Park at all times of the year. For more information about the park see the text at the end of this description.
The park is open from 08:00 until Dusk and Dogs are welcome on a lead.
Starting at the given co-ordinates – a walk around the park should give you all the information you need for the answers. Then there are then plenty of benches for you to work out the final.
Please be very muggle aware when retrieving and replacing so this cache remains hidden for others.
Cache placed with permission of Taunton Deane Borough Council.
1. You start on a bridge by a waterfall – how many upright posts are there on it? Answer = A
2. What year was the park presented to the town by Fox Brothers Ltd? 190(B)
3. How many trees are planted in the concrete to the right (as you look at it) of the bandstand? Add the digits together (C)
4. There is a sign saying keep off something – how many words on the sign? (D)
5. How high is the HaHa’s drop? E
6. How many posts are there around the War Memorial? Add the digits together = F
7. The tree was planted by Lloyd Howard Fox on June 22nd 19(G)1.
8. How many flowerbeds are there around the fountain? Add the digits together = H
The checksum of A+B+C+D+E+F+G+H=26
The final cache can be located at:
N 50 [B+C] [C+D] . [D+E] [E+F] [B+D+E]
W 003 [H-A] [F] . [H-F] [F-G] [H-E-B]
Wellington Park is listed Grade II on the English Heritage Register. It is 4.5 acres in size and contains some 48,000 bedding plants.
The park was a gift from the much respected Quaker Fox family to the town. The family were the town's main employer for many years, providing jobs to over a thousand people in their textile manufacturing, wool and banking companies.
The garden was then designed by F.W. Meyer, a renowned German landscape gardener.
He included in his design a rock garden made from limestone as part of the pond area which included 80 tons of limestone from Westleigh.
The floral bedding was designed to compliment and contrast with the rock garden and curving paths. Rhododendrons as well as Berberries, Savin Junipers and Holly Olives were added.
Wellington's war memorial, a Cornish granite obelisk on a raised plinth, was unveiled in 1921.
It bears 178 names of those who lost their lives in the First World War, and later, those who lost their lives in the Second World War were added.
The park currently attracts various animals and bird including foxes, squirrels, voles and mice. Birds such as tawny owls, mallard ducks, herons, blue tits, wagtails, rooks and other crows, house sparrows, dunnocks, robins, blackbirds, thrushes, wrens and tree creepers are all regular visitors to the park.
When taking my 4 year old son to the toilets in here recently we spotted this bat resting!
