Logged Visits:

16th Jul 2022  11:30  by Mickandkim

Gridref: SD 75700 98800   FB Number: 10797  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 1/10

Gone

7th May 2022  16:00  by 22thenext500

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Damaged  Score: 7/10

Afternoon circular walk along the Pennine Bridleway, up the ridge to The Nab, and a circuit around the plateau top. The top of the pillar seems to have been repaired with a block of concrete!

28th Aug 2021  11:00  by Earby Rambler

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 0/10

Visited at same time as rebuilt pillar.

29th May 2021  11:18  by We TRye hard

Gridref: SD 75797 98831   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 5/10

Altitude 713m. On a BM hunt and this one needed recording.

19th Apr 2021  00:00  by steverowland

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Not Logged  Score: 5/10

15th Jun 2020  00:00  by carolje

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 5/10

27th Aug 2019  15:12  by NormanW

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 5/10

9th Dec 2018  11:39  by TrainSPLOTer

FB Number: 10797  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 5/10

Pillar is in a very sorry state - several pieces, no flush bracket found

13th Aug 2018  22:07  by mcbiydw2

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Not Logged  Score: 5/10

28th Jul 2018  12:50  by trigrat

Gridref: SD 75799 98828   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Not Logged  Score: 5/10

13th Jul 2018  05:54  by fitzydan

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 7/10

Great views - no trig. Previous comments noted so not too bothered about this one.

29th Sep 2017  12:30  by Hands

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 5/10

whilst visiting replacement

25th Jul 2017  14:27  by jonglew

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 5/10

Interesting point about replacement FBs is that the FB is a benchmark not a trig so arguably if only the 'benchmark' is replaced it's still the same trig and shouldn't have a second entry in T:UK - discuss. As it happens the replacement FB has also gone now.

8th Oct 2016  14:39  by stignest

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 5/10

Interesting comments about the Pillar being the same but the fb being replaced. makes sense i guess. Which is more than can be said for the serial theivery.

31st May 2016  13:06  by amblerbob

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 3/10

Whilst visiting extant pillar.

3rd Oct 2015  11:42  by clochandighter

Gridref: SD 75795 98827   FB Number: 10797  Condition: Damaged  Score: 0/10

See log for 11810. TPUK TP No. 6943

10797 - Wild Boar Fell

18th Apr 2015  14:08  by pendlelill

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 2/10

8th Sep 2014  10:27  by g4wsb

Gridref: SD 75797 98827   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 1/10

24th May 2014  00:00  by Ronaldo333

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Not Logged  Score: 5/10

17th Nov 2013  12:43  by Morecambe Monkey

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 5/10

Assume this pillar was replaced by the existing one,itself now in very poor condition.

28th Sep 2013  20:36  by painterman61

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 5/10

Done at same time as visiting trig already there

13th Sep 2013  16:01  by welsh rambler

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 6/10

Walked up from Hazelgill, pillar damaged and in urgent need of repair.

14th Aug 2012  23:51  by Triggers

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 5/10

AS PER LOG OF LATER TRIG

14th Aug 2012  19:20  by PeteBoggs

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 2/10

Presumably replaced by present slightly damaged stone built trig

21st Jul 2012  13:30  by countrymatters

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 0/10

Can't ever recall a pillar here with FB 10797. The present one, which doesn't have an FB, is now damaged.

21st Jul 2012  09:47  by jonaber

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Not Logged  Score: 6/10

15th Jul 2012  12:00  by BasilDowl

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 5/10

Walked a long, arduous 15-16 miler to take in Wild Boar Fell and its tops, plus much of the western Mallerstang skyline. Wonderful walk. Previous trig site obviously became the current replacement site. The replacement trig - as remembered - was in a very weathered state, stone-built, but intact. Stone windbreak/shelter was very welcome.

15th Apr 2011  10:41  by asbown

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 5/10

31st Jan 2010  00:00  by rupertal

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 0/10

20th Jul 2008  11:00  by DanTrig

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 8/10

Lovely walk over Wild Boar Fell and Swarth Fell.

30th Jun 2008  07:28  by agentmancuso

Gridref: SD 75795 98828   FB Number: 10797  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 5/10

FB 10797 reported 29/06/1976 as destroyed; pillar rebuilt with FB 11810, also long gone.

10th Feb 2008  12:00  by peregrinus

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 5/10

Former pillar was 1m N of replacement 11810 Wild Boar Fell

12th Jan 2008  00:00  by CJO

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 1/10

visited site when logging TP6943

24th Dec 2006  10:00  by chrisbombington

Gridref: SD 75795 98828   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Damaged  Score: 9/10

Wild Boar Fell FB 10797 to FB 11810 In Wainwright's book Walks on the Howgill Fells and Adjoining Fells he goes in to quite a lot of detail about Wild Boar Fell including a nice sketch of the Trig and stating the column number as 10797 the book was published in 1972, he later received a letter from a certain Mr Bob Swallow questioning his recording of the said number, as it turned out they were both right “the original plaque having been pilfered and subsequently replaced with the next available number“, this information was gleaned from a book by W R Mitchell After You Mr. Wainwright the foreword written by Bob Swallow. therefore I suggest this column was not destroyed but simply allocated a new number backing up this theory is Wainwrights detailed sketch in which the trigs construction looks simaler to the one I photographed in 2006 although the years have taken their toll and recent photos sugest it may soon topple.

Wainwright sketch circa 1972
Wild Boar Fell 2006

5th Jan 2003  13:58  by Aye Jimmy

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 1/10

Presumably the residue is under the newer stone built trig.

4th Mar 1999  13:23  by sleepwalker

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 5/10

Ascended from Outhgill in snowy and misty conditions, no sign of former pillar.

19th Dec 1998  11:45  by dugswell2

FB Number: GONE  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 6/10

Climbed with Stephen Boff.

24th Nov 1988  00:00  by Chris Ellis

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 5/10

10th Jul 1988  13:00  by ted

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 0/10

Not sure how to log these! My first of many visits to Wild Boar Fell was 10 July 1988. By that time, the original FB and its replacement had both gone. The pillar itself was otherwise OK, but will rate this log for the original FB.