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

[classic33]

Possibly a mistake, the wrong photie uploaded.
I did that on the benchmark site, wrong location info but a quick email and got it fixed.

Have Lancashire their own FBM? Blasphemy LOL

Worse, they seem to be trying to claim part of Yorkshire!!

 

[Bobby Mhor]

Worse, they seem to be trying to claim part of Yorkshire!!

Sir Geoff, come on down

 

[PeteXXX]

Several 'hits' on todays ride.

A plaque on the side of the canal in Stoke Bruerne.

A BM on the church in Litchborough. I've previously posted a BM a hundred yards away, on a house on the crossroads, and was surprised to find this one so close nearby.

And on to Whilton Hill to find TP6864. All intact, including the flush bracket and spider, in the middle of a field of sheep, on a public footpath, so no trespassing today!

Lastly, a wet(?) Victorian postbox in Dodford.

 

[Drago]

Stoke Bruerne isn't far from Chez Drago. Did you see the comedy road signs for the anal museum?

An interesting snippet re the origins of the arrow symbol.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broad_arrow

 

[PeteXXX]

We actually rode past Drago Towers I think!
Nope, no anal canals, though I did pass a colonic irrigation clinic in, I think, Bugbrook. Didn't stop though...

 

[Gravity Aided]

Not a canal museum?

 

[Drago]

It is a canal museum, but every time a new sign is erected the locals very artfully alter it to spell "anal museum".

There's a bit of a theme going, as signs for the nearby town of Newport Pagnell get altered to New a nel. The museum one is funnier.

 

[biggs682]

This mornings haul .

This plate on the bridge in Brigstock

This hidden benchmark on Brigstock church .

An old post box in Brigstock square

This benchmark on the front of a house on the Sudborough to Slipton lane .

Another benchmark on the Samuel Pepys eatery in Slipton

And finally another benchmark as you go into Woodford.

 

[biggs682]

Today's haul

A nice old utility marker in Grendon.

A no find at Strixton church.

An old post box in Strixton

And another in Wollaston

 

[Tim Hall]

The AP has got the level added on to the benchmark on his house. Tge metric value is 0.01m out, according to the OS database.

 

[Tim Hall]

Got this today in the Ashdown Forest. It's at the foot of a Giant Redwood, which Keen Students will note, is not a native species. It's on the Greenwich Meridian, obvs.Here's what the interwebs say about it:

When in the spring of 1984, Epping District Council announced it intention to plant western red cedars along the Meridian to mark its ‘centenary’, it also urged other local authorities to do likewise. Of the seven who said they would, Wealden District Council is the only one that appears to have actually done so. They planted specimens of sequoiadendron giganteums – a tree also known as wellingtonia, but more commonly as the giant redwood. In time, they will tower over their neighbours, reaching perhaps a height of 50–85 m. The variety is long lived – the oldest known specimen being about 3,500 years old. Of the four planting sites identified, three (of which this is one) are spaced at roughly 0.5 mile intervals in the Ashdown Forest. The other is a couple of miles further south at Furner's Green.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Redwoods get to be huge trees.
From the web...

 

[classic33]

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Redwoods get to be huge trees.
From the web...

Hasn't the largest one, you could drive through it, fallen down?

 

[Bobby Mhor]

Hasn't the largest one, you could drive through it, fallen down?

One has gone, storm and human error apparently, I blame Trumpf, the tree tried to take a knee

 

[Bobby Mhor]

Been to jail to get this FB...Inveraray Jail
(stuck behind bins, a wifie wondered what I was up to)

One more in Inverary

Walked around but nothing else on show....