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Trig points


Postby Spade » Sun May 15, 2022 9:32 pm

Just a thought, but has anyone ever bagged every trig point in the UK?. Had a look on the trig map and there are quite a number. https://trigbagging.co.uk/trig-pillar-map/
interesting :)
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Re: Trig points

Postby jmarkb » Sun May 15, 2022 9:36 pm

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Re: Trig points

Postby Spade » Sun May 15, 2022 9:48 pm





really great and real endurance to get them !! :clap: :clap:
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Re: Trig points

Postby jmarkb » Mon May 16, 2022 9:07 am

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Re: Trig points

Postby Booga » Wed Jun 08, 2022 11:26 am

I log them on the TrigpointingUK site when I discover them, and occasionally go out and search for local ones if I need an excuse for a walk but I have no intention of trying to bag them all! :lol:
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Re: Trig points

Postby Sunset tripper » Wed Jun 08, 2022 6:26 pm

There are two in the quarrel woods in Elgin that I came across mostly by accident. Two trigpoints in one grid square is very unusual apparantly.
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Re: Trig points

Postby Broggy1 » Thu Jun 09, 2022 7:02 pm

Sunset tripper wrote:There are two in the quarrel woods in Elgin that I came across mostly by accident. Two trigpoints in one grid square is very unusual apparantly.


Defo.

There’s two at the top of Wards Stone in Lancashire - one at each end of the summit plateau - which I’d say is also very unusual.
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Re: Trig points

Postby Sgurr » Thu Jun 09, 2022 9:59 pm

If you want a slightly easier project you can try visiting all Scotland's toposcopes/viewfinders

https://www.amazon.co.uk/349-Views-Scotland-David-Squires-ebook/dp/B079ZNCF86/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3IIGP9HV9EVP4&keywords=David+Squires+349&qid=1654808273&sprefix=david+squires+349%2Caps%2C119&sr=8-1

I suspect there are a few more than 349, as the author told me about a couple.
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Re: Trig points

Postby Sunset tripper » Thu Jun 09, 2022 11:54 pm

Broggy1 wrote:
Sunset tripper wrote:There are two in the quarrel woods in Elgin that I came across mostly by accident. Two trigpoints in one grid square is very unusual apparantly.


Defo.

There’s two at the top of Wards Stone in Lancashire - one at each end of the summit plateau - which I’d say is also very unusual.


Just had a look at that 2 on the map and they might even be closer together, but not in the same grid square.

Still very unusual to be that close together as you say.

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Re: Trig points

Postby Sunset tripper » Fri Jun 10, 2022 12:02 am

Sgurr wrote:If you want a slightly easier project you can try visiting all Scotland's toposcopes/viewfinders

https://www.amazon.co.uk/349-Views-Scotland-David-Squires-ebook/dp/B079ZNCF86/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3IIGP9HV9EVP4&keywords=David+Squires+349&qid=1654808273&sprefix=david+squires+349%2Caps%2C119&sr=8-1

I suspect there are a few more than 349, as the author told me about a couple.



That looks like a good bargain - would you recommend it?

There is a viewfinder on Ladyhill, also in Elgin, it's not very accurate and I would be surprised if it's listed in the book.

I may have to buy it.

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Re: Trig points

Postby Sgurr » Fri Jun 10, 2022 9:26 am

Inaccurate ones are there too. Not sure if mentioned in the book, but there was one where the landowner "knew" the names of all the hills and insisted on his version being on the viewfinder, but the guy from whom he had commissioned it refused to come to the opening ceremony as he was so ashamed of it.
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Re: Trig points

Postby rohan » Wed Jun 15, 2022 6:41 pm

Sgurr wrote:If you want a slightly easier project you can try visiting all Scotland's toposcopes/viewfinders

https://www.amazon.co.uk/349-Views-Scotland-David-Squires-ebook/dp/B079ZNCF86/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3IIGP9HV9EVP4&keywords=David+Squires+349&qid=1654808273&sprefix=david+squires+349%2Caps%2C119&sr=8-1

I suspect there are a few more than 349, as the author told me about a couple.


There is a concentration of 14 pillars around Fort Augustus called the Great Glen Project that were used to measure crustal movement across the GG fault and not for OS mapping ( as such they do not show up on the OS map but they do count towards the final TP tally). 15 are recorded; one has never been found, probably never built and another one was only found this year. These are a very do-able "round". Even more acheivable ( although access can be problematic) are the 9 Curry Stools, 6 of which are in Scotland. These are not the result of an excess of chilli but you do need to visit a bog to find them.

http://trigpointing.uk/trigs/view-trigs.php?q=1774092

There is an interesting article from Rob Woodall on the OS website written shortly before he reached his final TP. I wonder how Dave Hewitt has got on with visiting pillars at all the different heights

https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/newsroom/blog/britains-top-trig-bagger

If benchnarks, bolts, rivets and other types of triangulation stations are added into the to the tally the number leaps to over 25,000. I only record the pillars and only started doing this a few years ago when I came across the TUK site ( although added retrospective ones from the hills I had recorded as having climbed). My 395 tally looks somewhat pathetic.
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