The CC Trig Point bagger thread, now incorporating other interesting geographs

[Richard A Thackeray]

Tuesday 7th
2. (really #1)

Village Pump (apparantly)
Main Street
Askham Richard
(west of) York (1)

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/178939

1. I turned off the A64, at Bilbrough Top, where the McDonalds is, as there's more of a deceleration lane, than by The Buckles Inn

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Tuesday 7th
3.

Main Street
Askham Richard
(west of) York

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6389031


The Village Pond, few yards further on; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5611136




There's also HMP Askham Richard just out of the village, an open Prison, & young-offenders;
https://prisonguide.co.uk/askham-grange-prison/
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1988561

 

[Biker man]

Unashamedly stolen the idea from the Col Baggers thread. That looked like great fun to me, but there is a dearth of Cols near me, so it was a no go.

Still, I liked the idea, but came up with a type of target more easily found in my part of the World...or in any part of the country... Trig Points.

Ideally ones you've sought on the bicycle, but I won't be sniffy if you happened to be driving past and leaped out the still moving car to snap a prime example of trig pointness.

I'm having my shoulder injection tomorrow, but after a day or two of recovery I'm going to go hunting myself. It seems to me a good motivation to go for a ride, an ongoing purposes, and the rides become more epic as you bag the easy local ones and start moving further afield.

I live not far from a trig point it's on a mountain not the easiest place to access.

 

[Tim Bennet.]

Trig point on Peddars way in Norfolk

 

[classic33]

I live not far from a trig point it's on a mountain not the easiest place to access.

If it were easy, everyone would be doing it.
We chose, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.

 

[PeteXXX]

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My only Trig Point on yesterday’s ride, near Massingham.

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Decent FB on it.

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And the top cap is complete.

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It’s on the
~Peddars Way~

Some of which is tracks, and some tarmac.

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Trig point on Peddars way in Norfolk

Are these the same one? 🤔

 

[Tim Bennet.]

Are these the same one?

I should think so.

 

[Biker man]

If it were easy, everyone would be doing it.
We chose, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.

Blimey it's a trig point not going to Mars.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Sunday 26th
Not the usual criteria for in here

This was part of my ‘cross-country’ run-route to work
I used to run up the right-hand side of this hedgerow, then followed the line of the houses in the distance, to come out by Stanley Hall (& the Hospice)
Then the ‘Eastern Relief Road’ & all of the houses happened

Following the hedge; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2402505



This was the top portion of the track, before the distant houses; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2402521


And, at the top, by the access to Stanley Hall, & Wakefield Hospice
I used to leave/join the track where the black tubes protecting the plants are, the broken gate has been like that since at least 1997

Hiding here, in the trees; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/994575


And, the white building is;
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/994537
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/994543
https://britishlistedbuildings.co.u...ll-stanley-and-outwood-east-ward#.YcsuDGDP3IU

 

[Mr Celine]

I took a walk up to my nearest trig point last week to inspect the damage from storm Arwen. The last hundred metres took nearly half an hour as the plantation near the top had suffered some serious devastation.
This is the view from the top looking back down the 'path' -

And this is the poor trig point, which suffered a glancing blow -

...and is now a bit squint.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Wednesday 29th

Carlton Street
Castleford

Trevelyan House
1890

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/532513

The Market Hall

Both of the date-stones are identical

In a way, this is curious, as he left the town as soon as he could
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Moore

Edit @ 14:32
Not far to my left, as I took the Market Hall images, the old Library is still there (not sure if it's still operating?), with the old Market Hall too (as a shell)
On its facade is a blue plaque to a local VC winner

http://victoriacross.moonfruit.com/...Q-txg9rJgsO4ErJp6Cke2KtNpNHFxxo6bDW6y305gkJuY


View: https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10213302021657337&set=a.10213169383541467


View: https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10213302019137274&set=a.10213169383541467

 

[biggs682]

One I have been meaning to do for ages , All Saints Church in Grafham complete with two nice stonemasons marks as well.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

From my files

Moss Moor/Windy Hill
(near jct22/M62)
My Octavia estate, unsuccessfully, attempts to hide behind the stone

Thursday 20th April 2017

Seen from the other side; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3516630


And rejoining the M62, note the cattle-grids!
I believe the only others in the UK, are somewhere on the M6

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

From my files

28th July 2019

View: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10214352081988189&set=a.10214084142529870

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5746870

Sister Minnie Wood, who held & comforted Spindler, as she lay dying, was also from Wakefield
I'm sure, that in a book I recently bought, it states that Wood was awarded the Military Medal, for her part in the conflict

https://greenhowards.org.uk/announc...9gnJpv4Hm_pqEJBcdf0X3WObJhTtdOjcE2oIStyigI-CU
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_Spindler?
https://www.wakefieldexpress.co.uk/...wakefield-nurse-who-died-passchendaele-298909
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/new...d-full-military-honours-passchendaele-1772631

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

From my files

Sunday 28th July 2019

What came first
The Socialist newspaper, or the street-name?

(off) Doncaster Road/A638
Belle-Vue
Wakefield

Or, even the cycling clubs?

http://www.calderclarion.co.uk/
https://clarioncc.org/