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

[PeteXXX]

This one

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has got this

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about 100m SW of it. It appears to be all thats left of a 1950s era tank/APC/self propelled gun - there is still an area in use by the MOD as a rifle range immediately to the south.

Lucky they didn't use the TP for target practise...

 

[PeteXXX]

I took a ride out towards Teeton today to bag a TP I spotted on the OS map a while back..

It's in a field, with easy access through a farm gate 15 yards away. Due to a fairly high hedge, it's all but invisible from the adjacent lane.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Having found the locale of the survey marker, it has been a longtime apparent area of the local yoof, who have hung bags in the trees because they must get lost in the 40 or 50 foot wide belt of brush between the trail and the school bus parking area. I would guess it was scavenged, maybe about the time when people became resident in the area, and trailers were moved in for the trailer park. Having exact measures and history of the site, i am assuming it is no longer there. The Dawes did a nice job getting me there, though I shall be reinstating FD and triple . On to the next site. At least I am learning volumes about my area in minute detail.

 

[Drago]

Hokay, I've worked out a route to capture 6 benchmarks and one trig today. Let's see if I can find them all.

 

[PeteXXX]

I tried for a Bench mark yesterday in Gt Billing but didn't find it.
I'll give it another go soon.

 

[Drago]

Right, busy day. 23 miles of trig and benchmark hunting.

1) Newport Pagnell North Bridge flush bracket. I beleieve it's there, but couldn't access the bridge due to roadworks

2) Newport Pagnell Church. This is a Trig Point, so presumably up on the tower is the 3 pronged metal spider as found attached to conventional trig pillars and Vanessas.

Then along Newport Pagnell High St to a flush bracket on the Plough P/H.

Then further along the High Street to the old Town hall, which I think is now apartments.

 

[Drago]

Then across town to the Red House P/H (the OS boys must've been a right bunch of dipso's!). Found the spot, but there's a wooden planter pushed up against the wall obstructing it.

Then a loop round to find a cut mark on the pillar to the gated road at the hamlet of Little Linford. However, the pillar has been recently repaired and I could find no sign of the 'crows foot' carving, so I'm guessing it's gone

Come on you lot. This is fun, interesting, and blummen good motivation to get out for a ride.

 

[Bobby Mhor]

Then across town to the Red House P/H (the OS boys must've been a right bunch of dipso's!). Found the spot, but there's a wooden planter pushed up against the wall obstructing it.

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Then a loop round to find a cut mark on the pillar to the gated road at the hamlet of Little Linford. However, the pillar has been recently repaired and I could find no sign of the 'crows foot' carving, so I'm guessing it's gone

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Come on you lot. This is fun, interesting, and blummen good motivation to get out for a ride.

Not today, we've got snow flurries and a gale outside..

Geocache when out?

 

[Drago]

In a way its like geocaching, but without the film cannisters. But no,m I don't. The thrill os Trig and Benchmark hunting is good enough for me.

 

[biggs682]

In a way its like geocaching, but without the film cannisters. But no,m I don't. The thrill os Trig and Benchmark hunting is good enough for me.

will have to see which ones are on my normal loops

hope Colin is enjoying the miles

 

[Andy_R]

In a way its like geocaching, but without the film cannisters. But no,m I don't. The thrill os Trig and Benchmark hunting is good enough for me.

You can combine the 2 at YOSM - Ye Old Survey Monuments based around a travelling geocache GC45CC

 

[Drago]

Colin is lovely thanks Biggs. All dialed in nicely, rolls effortlessly. I might try and fit a 6 speed freewheel, bit I'll have to see.

 

[Gixxerman]

Wolds Top. Highest point in Lincolnshire at 168m. Trig point is quite hard to find as you have to walk across several fields to get to it. Nice views from the top though. In one image you can see the Humber bridge.

 

[DRM]

Spotted this one quite by accident whilst on my way back from Sundays ride, it was pot luck that I noticed it, I've ridden & driven past the thing so many times, yet I didn't know it existed
http://trigpointing.uk/trig/6462
Located at Thorpe, South Leeds at the side of the road in a farmers field

 

[Bobby Mhor]

TP11563 Intersected Station logged earlier today..
Lochwinnoch Parish Church.

I didn't get to sit on it
My first of this kind, must look out more...