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• #20753
Ta all; still don't quite understand the clues, but that's not uncommon for the game...
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• #20754
The clues were just damn confusing. Googlefu ftw!
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• #20755
I am disappointed you didn't leave a review :(
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• #20756
I only knew it because I've ridden there before.
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• #20757
Dicki's tag:
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• #20758
Or of the clues referenced a "mid land river"
The River Trent runs through the Midlands.
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• #20759
I just did a google image search for "london obelisk".
There are lots of images of Cleopatra's Needle on the first page of results but if you ignore them and scroll down a bit you find a very similar image (an obelisk flanked by trees) as the BToB one with "Trent Park" in the description.
I found the location of the new tag in about 5 minutes using google maps and what's visible in the photo. No chance of me going to get it though - busy with work and then holiday.
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• #20760
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Park
Technically it’s outside of the Malaysian red line. - Middlesex Uni campus was owned by a Malaysian institution before being acquired for redevelopmentHowever in the vicinity you will find references to King Arthur
- Camlet Moat is also known as Camelot
Nightingales
- Middlesex Uni campus acquired by Berkeley Homes. The song famously references nightingales singing in Berkeley Square
and WW2 German pilots.
- Trent park used to house German prisoners during the war
Look up (go north) and seek out the mid land river
Midland river = River TrentPerhaps my brain just works in funny ways; but I thought with some cryptic clues and Google then you may be able to narrow down the location of the anonymous obilisk
- Camlet Moat is also known as Camelot
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• #20761
I know this tag.
It is some considerable distance from Londres Sud -
• #20762
Thanks! I'm mostly a general knowledge rather than a cryptic crossword man - I'd got as far as Berkeley Square with the nightingale clue, but no further. As with all the best clues, once they're explained they all make perfect sense...
(Edit: I think I've worked out where the new tag is, but it's a bit far for me from the actual Midlands...)
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• #20763
I found the location of the new tag in about 5 minutes using google maps and what's visible in the photo.
Your Zoom...Enhance tool works a shed load better than mine!
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• #20764
I found the location of the new tag in about 5 minutes using google maps and what's visible in the photo.
Your Zoom...Enhance tool works a shed load better than mine!
Cha-ching!
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• #20765
Needs a Maurice Jarre soundtrack.
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• #20766
Old tag: Pole hill obelisk, Chingford
A bit of a trek to get to. But some lovely pillars, cracking view, with a story about Lawrence too.New tag: Closer to canine aqua urbania
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[Predicts that new will go quickly]
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• #20768
Probably quicker than it'll take for me to get home from the old tag!
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• #20769
tagzumped twice ?
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• #20770
Ha!
Rep, if I could, for going the distance. -
• #20771
Old: Thames Path, just south of Westferry Circus
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• #20772
New: great coal supplier of the 19th century turned into luxury flats
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• #20773
Amazed that's not a re-tag. Good stuff.
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• #20774
I heard there was a map
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• #20775
Old tag. Limehouse basin
(Surely this has been tagged before?)New tag. Tall regalia
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https://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101358677-obelisk-on-the-west-side-of-moat-wood-in-trent-park-cockfosters-ward
It could be interpreted as symbolising a certain thrust vector, too. :)