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City-wide Poetry Treasure Hunt

INSTRUCTIONS

For each of the following ten locations in Cambridge:

1. Use what3words.com to find the exact spot.

2. Once you’ve arrived, look around you to discover the answer to the accompanying question.

3. Type in the answer to access a poem that draws on, or is related to, some feature of this location! 

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What colour is the roof of ‘Caspar’?

What3Words Location: vocab.rally.cheat

What colour is the clock-face on the church across the road?

What3Words Location: fact.jeeps.fuels

What’s the name of the shop that features a masked burglar in cowboy boots?

What3Words Location: king.festivity.gent

Looking out from Silver Street bridge towards the Mathematical Bridge, how many sash windows are there on a single floor of the building to your right?

What3Words Location: always.drama.news

Standing on the bridge, looking down at the punting station, what does that sign read? “No …”

What3Words Location: remove.dragon.pills

From here, what can you see but not cross?

What3Words Location: dusty.bars.gave

Crofters sells coffee, tea, ice cream and …?

What3Words Location: likely.formal.much

Counting the station arches from the left, what colour is the cross on the roundel between the seventh and eight?

What3Words Location: sleepy.thing.varieties

What year was Professor S. born?

What3Words Location: bucket.vision.ridge

How many trees line the entrance to the chapel?

What3Words Location: client.clubs.study

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