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

[Mr Celine]

It seems more like the track has been 'upgraded'. I think the old one would show as disturbed earth on the satellite imagery.

Google Earth gives you historical aerial pictures. This one is dated 2010 and shows the old track, further west than the current one.

Apologies for being boringly conventional and having north at the top.

Edit - the new gate can also be seen under construction.

 

[PeteXXX]

Google Earth gives you historical aerial pictures. This one is dated 2010 and shows the old track, further west than the current one.

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Apologies for being boringly conventional and having north at the top.

Edit - the new gate can also be seen under construction.

Thanks for that. I only looked at the first image presented to me.
No probs with being boringly conventional, my view was the direction I was looking on the bike

 

[bladesman73]

never tried this till today. located some local trig points on the trig website, both were near local village churches. i couldnt see them when i got there. are they usually hard to find? didnt want to go scouting thru the churchyard

 

[Drago]

There are trig points, which are almost all concrete pillars, although a few are 'bolts' attached to prominent landmarks such as church spires, water towers etc. A few hundred trig points have gone, but most of the 12,000 odd still remain

As well as the trig points there are 'lower order' OS marks used for more local surveying in between the main trig points. Some are metal flush brakes, as in my earlier photos in this thread. Some are cut marks, simply the OS crows foot carved into stonework, and some are bolts, a bolt head of a few inches dimater hammered in to a precise spot.

For trig points this is an excellent resource:

http://trigpointing.uk

For then lower order 'benchmarks', the flush brackets, cut marks and bolts:

http://www.bench-marks.org.uk

I got into this quite by accident. Its an interesting pass time in its own right, but its a superb excuse for an exploratory bike ride. Indeed, there's a cut mark I've identified I'm going to try and track down tomorrow.

 

[Drago]

Well done @User9609 popped your cherry at last.

That's a well maintained pillar. Some have been adopted and get reasonably well cared for, and that looks like one of them.

 

[classic33]

[QUOTE 4767042, member: 9609"]Trig Point No. 3553, Hadden Hill
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Vandal!

And suppose you dropped the bike.

 

[PeteXXX]

[QUOTE 4767042, member: 9609"]Trig Point No. 3553, Hadden Hill
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Well trigged!

 

[Drago]

Piddington OS benchmark, SP 8036 5317.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Ours are just a flat copper disc mounted to a concrete slab, but I have a fancy computer database that helps me find everything by which I can locate them. I'll have to try and fine one, maybe today. I stumbled on one once as a youth, hunting freshwater snail shells.

 

[Gravity Aided]

I couldn't find it, but I looked. Did find a good place to stealth camp. Not that I would, as it's only a couple miles from home.

 

[PeteXXX]

[QUOTE 4768594, member: 9609"]I nearly set my neck doing this daft stunt, it took me three goes to get it right - there is only a 30 second delay on the camera, so to press the button then get on the trig with my bike was not that easy, first go I was too late, second go I lost my balance and had to jump, and the third go I twinged something in my shoulder and its still not right. Too old for doing nonsense like that - i won't be ding it again.[/QUOTE]
So... in existence, somewhere, are the photos of you 'not quite making it'?
These we should see

 

[PeteXXX]

Piddington OS benchmark, SP 8036 5317.

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I've ridden through Piddington so many times! It's my off roadish route into Salcey.

 

[Drago]

As you go over the bridge (nice uphill leading up to it, eh?) Its on the left hand side of the bridge, dead in then middle, about 2' from the floor. The cut mark itself is in excellent condition, but the bridge itself is a bit knackered.

As you go across the bridge peer over the sides and you can see the course of the old Salcey Forest railway which used to link Roade with Horton.

 

[PeteXXX]

I'll check it out next time I'm in the vicinity

 

[Drago]

There's a cut mark on Hanslope Church, and a cut mark and a trig point in Blisworth, so I may go hunting at the weekend.