& Morganstown Treasure Trail

MORGANSTOWN TREFORGAN Bethel Chapel Gelynis Guide Farm Centre

Old Church RADYR Rooms RADUR Radyr Weir

Radyr Golf Club Radyr Train Windsor Station Gardens

2.0 2.5 HOURS MILES

DURATION DISTANCE FAMILY ACCESSIBLE ACCESSIBLE FUN Front page photo courtesy of WMT Answers Sheet

Help Find the Hidden Treasure! 1 …………………………………………………………………………………

Welcome explorers, we have a challenge and we 2 …………………………………………………………………………………

think you are just the right people for it! I hope your 3 ………………………………………………………………………………… exploring skills are in tip-top shape as you will need 4 ………………………………………………………………………………… them in this self-guided challenge. Captain Radmor has returned to the area after many years at sea and 5 ………………………………………………………………………………… has decided to share some of his treasure—but only 6 ………………………………………………………………………………… with the best explorers! He has set a trail and series 7 …………………………………………………………………………………

of clues to find. Find the answers and maybe you’ll 8 ………………………………………………………………………………… receive the treasure! 9 …………………………………………………………………………………

10 ………………………………………………………………………………. How to Play 11 ……………………………………………………………………………….

This treasure trail document has everything you 12 ………………………………………………………………………………. need other than a pen or pencil. The following pages 13 ………………………………………………………………………………. contain the directions and clues to solve / questions to answer. If you miss an answer just retrace your 14 ………………………………………………………………………………. steps. Good luck! 15 ……………………………………………………………………………….

Treasure Trail Complete? 16 ………………………………………………………………………………. 17 ………………………………………………………………………………. Well done—we knew you could do it! Make sure you’ve noted down all the answers on the sheet 18 ………………………………………………………………………………. provided. When you get home submit your answers 19 ………………………………………………………………………………. to [email protected] by 26th September 2020.

Captain Radmor will be checking to see who gets 20 ………………………………………………………………………………. them right and shares his treasure! 21 ……………………………………………………………………………….

22 ………………………………………………………………………………. 18. Walk to the Weir. 19. An invention of Attention! 1. Start at the Old Church The new building gener- which Ancient Greek sci- Rooms, to the right is a ates hydro-electric power. This route requires you to entist is used to generate red brick and tile house, An information board cross busy roads, an active gives you a lot of infor- power? railway line and use paths Ty Mynydd Lodge, it has mation about the weir. that can be slippery & the only blue plaque in How many homes is it muddy in the wet. Paren- , designed to create power tal supervision required. which author does the for? plaque commemorate?

21. Walk up the Taff trail, under the motor- way to a footbridge over the river. This was 2. The Old Church Rooms 20. You can see many built to take the tramway across the river. 3. Walk up Park Road past was the first school in kinds of birds at the weir, Before that the iron made in was the Primary School. The loaded onto barges and floated down the R&M. When the Primary wall is capped by half herons, ducks cormorants river to Melingriffith. The bridge is called round blue-grey tiles. Half after the Elizabethan farm just after the School was built it was and occasionally a very way along one of them bridge, Gelynis. From the bridge you get a reused by the Church. Its bright blue bird. They has a date and a place of lovely view of Castle Coch. Rstored by name is above the door in show this bird on the in- the Marquis of Bute in the 19th century. It manufacture. What is the the car park. What is the formation board. What is grew an unusual crop in the field under the date? castle. You’ll get a clue as to what the crop Welsh version of the its name? was in the field on your left just after Ge- lynis Farm. What was the crop? name?

Go up Chapel Road to the top and take the footpath which crosses the 22. Cross the railway with field and follows the side of the mo- Bonus Question! 5. Walk to the post box, in great care and go up the torway to a footbridge. Cross the the reign of which king steps to the main road. motorway. Turn right at the Guide 4. Where was it made? was it installed? Cross the road at the pe- Centre. Turn left onto Caer Craig to- wards Bryn Deri primary school and destrian crossing and go first right into Pentwyn. Continue until up Chapel Road. The chap- you get to the park. Take the alley on el is on your right. When your right just as the park starts which was it built? brings you out into Dan y Bryn Ave- nue. Next left takes you into Windsor Avenue which returns you to Park Road and the Old Church Rooms. 13. Head to the tunnel under the railway line. The railway was first 6. Go left along Wind- 7. Return to Windsor Ave- 12. Head down to the built for the Taff Vale Railway by Is- sor Avenue until you get nue and walk down to the station. You’ll usually see to Drysgol Road. Take a some strange animals in ambard Kingdom Brunel. The first village. A stone in Windsor detour to the Golf Club the field on your right. If narrow gauge railway that he built. car park. On the wall Gardens commemorates they are there, what are He favoured an 8 ft gauge. The first above the car park it gives R&M Twinning with they? railway line was single track. It has the year that the Golf Club where? was started. When was it been widened several times and you started? can see the different phases in the tunnel itself. How many phases?

9. A very ornate metal 14. Cross the bridge over the 15. At the other side of 8. In what year did R&M river. What is the name of bench in the park com- the bridge head north twin? the river? memorates what? towards Morganstown. A sign and an information board tell what this na- ture reserve is called. What is its name?

10. Turn right into Heol 11. Return to the pedes- 16. Walk along the Trail, be Bonus Question! Isaf. Walk along to the trian crossing and cross careful of bicycles. Just before third house, no 40. There the road. Go down Kings you get to the weir there is 17. What are the dates? is a board in the front gar- Road. No 9 Kings Road a piece of metal trackway in the den which tells you the was built for a famous grass on your right. This is part house, Aldersyde was Welsh boxer, Jimmy of a tramway, later a railway used as a what during Wilde. He called his house that linked Gwaelod y Garth to the First World War? after a famous belt that Whitchurch. What does it say he won. What is the name on this piece of track? of the house and belt?