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

[Alex H]

Last year's venture up The Cheviot (Northumberland's highest hill ). No bike, obviously.

 

[Drago]

Nothing more painful than a flush bracket up the cheviots!

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Friday 28th
1.

Rhubarb!

CastleHead Lane
Lofthouse

It’s one of those local government/post office oddities*, in that it’s in Leeds, but falls under a ‘WF’ postcode (Wakefield)

This is almost in the shadow of ‘Thorpe Interchange’, where the M1 & M62 cross

It’s very close to the blue circle on the OS map
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/626541

* Sherburn-in-Elmet is another oddity, it's;
- in North Yorkshire
- District of Selby
- 'LS' postcode (Leeds, West Yorkshire)
- Pontefract dialling code (West Yorkshire)

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Friday 28th
2.
Book Swap Box
Green Lane
Lofthouse
Leeds

Alluding to its position within the ’Rhubarb Triangle’

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1561289

A bit of ‘background’; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6803904

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Saturday 6th
1.

Aire & Calder Navigation Canal
Altofts
Wakefield

I joined it at the site of (stopped/filled-in) Foxholes Lock, at the bottom of Foxholes Lane

I was approximately at this location, but looking north-east; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7419264

The M62 crosses here, between jcts 30 & 31, it was the site of this incident, where surprisingly driver & co-driver both survived

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Saturday 6th
2.

‘Dovecote’
HunGate
Scholey Hill
(Methley)
Leeds

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4000284

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Saturday 6th
3.

Milepost
Aberford Road/A642
(jct 30/M62 is about a mile to the rear of my bike)
Stanley
Wakefield

I’ve featured it before, but it’s had the lettering picked out in black now (nor with the 'biscuit')
I’m not sure why anyone needs to know how far to Burnley, or London?!

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6626612

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

There might be a few tomorrow too, as we're possibly going down to Scrooby & Bawtry
Thus, maybe a few The Great North Road related images

Plus, a visit, if it's not too busy, a pub in Scrooby for dinner

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Sunday 7th
1.

Pilgrim Fathers public house
Great North Road
Scrooby
Nottinghamshire

I know that the Massachusetts distances correspond to the settling there, the Netherlands, due to a brief sojourn there to avoid religious persecution
Texas?, I have no idea

William Brewster, one of the Pilgrim Fathers, lived in the village
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4803539
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7384362
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Brewster_(Mayflower_passenger)

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Sunday 7th
2.
Old Vicarage
Church Lane
Scrooby
Nottinghamshire

https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101239432-the-old-vicarage-scrooby#.ZFe1bqDMLIU
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4259635

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Sunday 7th
3.

Crown Hotel & Posting House
High Street (ex Great North Road)
Bawtry

https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101151545-crown-hotel-market-place-bawtry#.ZFe2wKDMLIU
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5837163

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Sunday 7th
4.

Swan Street
Bawtry

Note the 'attic windows' that mirror the bow, at ground level

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Sunday 7th
5.

'Rocket Site'
Springs Road
Misson
Doncaster

When RAF Finningley, about a mile, or so, to the west (now Doncaster/Robin Hood Airport) was a 'Cold War nuclear bomber base', mainly Vulcans) this was the surface-air defence unit
That's a Bloodhound, on the mount

Ron Ayers, the aerodynamecist who helped design Thrust SSC, & the (1000MPH) Bloodhound Land Speed Record car, worked on the design of those missles

If you look at the layout on the OS map, it shows the dispersal pads for the missiles; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4863765
The premises of; https://ljacksonandco.com/ (if you open it, the extent of the stock, & dispersal pads can be seen in the galleries)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Misson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodhound_(missile)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Finningley

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Sunday 7th
6.
The White Horse
West Lane
Sharlston
Wakefield

My original thoughts were to have dinner, at The Pilgrim Fathers (#1), however we were there too early, & although I did offer to return after Bawtry, SWMBO decided that we were carrying on
This isn't too far from home, but her & her business partner have been there before)

'
Just inside the porch


https://whitehorsesharlston.co.uk/
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/125442

 

[Oldhippy]