Logged Visits:

3rd Mar 2024  17:09  by The Trudges

FB Number: S2379  Condition: Damaged  Score: 4/10

Parked at Malt House farm and asked farmer for permission to visit pillar, He told us the field didn’t belong to him but we were ok to park there and we were ok to visit it. Trig badly cracked all over but does still have all its metal work

Trig
Spider with original centre cap©The Trudges
Flush Bracket ©The Trudges
View from spider ©The Trudges

3rd Mar 2024  16:58  by Motor mic

FB Number: S2379  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 6/10

3rd Mar 2024  16:58  by MickSan

FB Number: S2379  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 6/10

Done with trudge Tracey

17th Feb 2024  11:15  by Weddyman

FB Number: S2379  Condition: Damaged  Score: 5/10

28th Jan 2024  12:17  by eon

Gridref: SP 27145 94492   FB Number: S2379  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

(3525) Drove up to and parked at Malthouse Farm. Spoke to a chap there, it's not his land, but said it wouldn't be a problem to visit the pillar. Short walk across the field - no real crop and not muddy thankfully - and there she was. Hairline cracks aplenty, but those aside, all is in reasonable condition. Still retaining all its metalwork - centre cap with indented lettering. Pillar history: Built on the 12th of November 1938, at a cost of £4 1s 8d. Last maintained by the OS in July of 1978.

Bentley ©eon
Pillar ©eon
FB S2379 ©eon
Top ©eon
Centre cap - detail ©eon

30th Dec 2023  15:15  by [email protected]

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

Tricky parking. Parked in a rough layby on the right. Crossed back over and walked back on ourselves to find an obscured gate. Pillar very visible this time of the year. Clay field and a bit boggy. Pillar is on a concrete slab. Weather beaten!

28th Oct 2023  08:55  by painterman61

FB Number: S2379  Condition: Damaged  Score: 6/10

Good parking but very waterlogged clay field my boots were caked in sticky clay walking to this one. All intact misty views no wind

Site ©painterman61
Trig ©painterman61
Top ©painterman61
Fb ©painterman61

16th May 2023  21:20  by Wheresthatpenguin

Gridref: SP 27146 94486   FB Number: S2379  Condition: Damaged  Score: 8/10

Parked on the B4116. Accessed the trig field from the gate and walked up the tractor track to the pillar, which sits on top of a concrete plinth. There is some cracking to the column. Was starting to get rather murky by the time I reached the pillar, as the dusk set in.

Pillar
Flush Bracket
Spider
Pillar Can just about be seen in the twilight!

11th Oct 2022  16:11  by brit_97

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

Working in the area, viewed from gate as not wearing appropriate trig bagging clothes/footwear!!

6th Jul 2022  13:14  by Whats the Point

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Unreachable but visible  Score: 5/10

Revisit by bike. Not tramping through a field of spuds so a view from the gate will have to do.

3rd Sep 2021  17:03  by slateloose

Gridref: SP 27100 94400   FB Number: S2379  Condition: Damaged  Score: 5/10

Parked in rough lay bye on the B4116 due south of trig, a small gap in the hedge giving access to field. The field had just been harvested which made easy walking over the stubble to the trig point.

23rd Mar 2021  20:18  by wildaggers

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

14th Dec 2019  12:10  by rupertal

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

26th Jan 2019  13:54  by Pritch227

FB Number: S2379  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 7/10

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29th Apr 2018  13:25  by Phil Clayton

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Unreachable but visible  Score: 5/10

7th of 8 today. Pulled up in muddy field entrance from where it was visible a couple of hundred yards away. New crop + muddy field + my wife phoning to say her conference was about to finish so could I pick her up, meant I gave it a miss.

30th Mar 2017  13:23  by g4wsb

Gridref: SP 27148 94491   FB Number: S2379  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

Parking on right next to fide entrance walk along hedge and follow tractor track to pillar.Slight cracking.

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5th Jan 2017  14:25  by Alancache

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 4/10

I didn't like to walk across the field, so I just looked from the edge

View of pillar from the edge of the field

21st Sep 2016  18:39  by vegibagger

FB Number: S2379  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

cap still in place ...middle of field of young beet plants

trig n beet ©vegibagger
trig n sky ©vegibagger
fb ©vegibagger
top ©vegibagger

26th May 2014  21:10  by Father Ted

FB Number: S2379  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

A revisit to convert a blue face onto a happy yellow one.

18th Dec 2013  13:30  by rams

Gridref: SP 27100 94400   FB Number: 2379  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

bentley
bentley

18th Dec 2013  12:40  by tomytucker

Gridref: SP 27200 94400   FB Number: 2379  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

3rd of 3 today cold and windy;restricted views not much to see all todays trigs were easay to get to

16th Mar 2013  00:00  by caroleengel

Gridref: SP 27146 94490   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Damaged  Score: 5/10

28th Oct 2012  14:15  by CJO

Gridref: SP 27148 94487   FB Number: S2379  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

last years cereal crop has young rape plants already growing. possible to access along tractor tramlines, very sticky mud. Pillar on a concrete plinth.

S2379

10th Nov 2011  13:55  by trig-man

Gridref: SP 27151 94483   FB Number: S2379  Condition: Damaged  Score: 5/10

No one around old farm but got a bit nervous when I heard dogs starting to bark in the distance. So turned out to be a quick dash

1st Nov 2011  13:40  by arranc

Gridref: SP 27146 94488   FB Number: S2379  Condition: Damaged  Score: 5/10

24th Oct 2011  14:09  by Whats the Point

Gridref: SP 27147 94487   FB Number: S2379  Condition: Damaged  Score: 6/10

Walked from Bentley Park Wood – cereal crop only a few inches high with dry ground – better views than expected. Continued along tractor tracks east to the lane junction and past Lloyds coppice back to the car parked opposite the Horse and Jockey which unfortunately wasn’t open.

Bentley

2nd Apr 2011  12:25  by dal

FB Number: S2379  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

Middle of field. Intact cap. Some cracking, not quite so obvious having been painted.

26th Mar 2011  12:50  by sven

FB Number: S2379  Condition: Damaged  Score: 6/10

A trig to visit in Spring without a crop and when it's dry. Parked in farm gate access as the farm is unoccupied at the moment. Surprising views even with mistiness

An unremarkable TP visible from the road

13th Mar 2011  14:00  by Mickandkim

Gridref: SP 27146 94486   FB Number: S2379  Condition: Damaged  Score: 5/10

Car GPS put us in wrong field Parked at entrance to farm but nobody living there followed tractor lines to trig

26th Feb 2011  12:03  by descarte1

Gridref: SP 27145 94484   FB Number: S2379  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 6/10

Pillar in good condition other than cracking. Can't establish the seriousness of these with the new paint job, but there are several networks across the faces. FB faces north-ish with the south-ish sighthole open only. Cap present with sunken lettering. Nice expansive views north. Asked permission at the Pheasantry. No problems over the claggy, but only just planted field.

8th Oct 2009  12:32  by Garth Fenton

FB Number: S2379  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

pAINTED THE PILLAR WHITE

24th Sep 2009  07:14  by Lonewalker

FB Number: S2379  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

Bagged on the way to a meeting in Coventry. In business suit and boots I must have looked a proper sight. Had my fake OS ID card in case I was approached by Farmer Palmer ;) Some cracks to most faces, but spider intact which is always a bonus.

18th Apr 2009  16:41  by Bourne

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Unreachable but visible  Score: 5/10

Farmer blocked access, viewed from road

23rd May 2008  13:10  by asbown

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Damaged  Score: 4/10

parked in what looked like a disused barn\\house on the main road and a quick nip over the field, hesitated a bit before going to the trig,you can be seen all the way from the house next to the disused 1 and for some reason feel a bit uneasy but got there and back no problem.

17th Mar 2008  14:35  by CURRYSCRIM

Gridref: SP 27100 94400   FB Number: S2379  Condition: Damaged  Score: 5/10

Quite a few cracks on all faces, quite good views. I parked in Hurley lane on a pull in on bend visible from B4116. Walked back to and along main road, TP easily seen just past farm.Field was muddy so boots advised.

22nd Jan 2008  14:25  by SlainteJimmy

FB Number: S2379  Condition: Damaged  Score: 5/10

Cracks up every face, exposed to the elements in the middle of open field. E sighting open.

Shame about the cracks.. the poor wee lad is very exposed.

10th Aug 2007  15:07  by THE CYCLIST

FB Number: S2379  Condition: Damaged  Score: 5/10

2nd visit - crop now harvested- walk over stubble.

3rd Dec 2005  14:00  by Glaslyn

Gridref: SP 27100 94500   FB Number: S2379  Condition: Damaged  Score: 5/10

This one has suffered a bit i think ,numerous cracks on most faces.Park on road just before farm,stubble field so no problems at this time of year,ok views.

©Glaslyn
©Glaslyn
©Glaslyn

29th Apr 2005  18:51  by rhayader_wanderer

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 4/10

Cracks all over the place now a cerea fied with no easy line to get to the trig parking also limited used a gateway about 100m from the farm away from atherstone but little else

5th Dec 2004  12:00  by mickandshane

FB Number: S2379  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

Crops still coming through but I tried to walk between the rows of what looked like beet or something similar (still very small) - in case I was spotted from the farm which is close by. There is still evidence of the blue paint, plug with indented lettering.

30th Oct 2004  13:00  by Father Ted

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Unreachable but visible  Score: 3/10

Last trig of the day but disappointing in that I could not get to the trig as winter crops were just coming through and the field sodden. I took my photo from afar.

Bentley Trig Point

1st May 2004  14:05  by Lathama

Gridref: SP 27100 94400   FB Number: S2379  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

Right in the middle of a huge field of late-sown broad beans but easy access off B4116. Although you can still see a bit of white paint, this pillar has been painted steel blue and there is quite a bit of that colour left. The top is intact with the original plug but three of the faces are badly cracked; only the east face is clear of cracking. There is a very substantial concrete base about 4 foot square. Good views westwards.

27th Sep 2003  12:00  by peregrinus

FB Number: S2379  Condition: Damaged  Score: 5/10

metal cap shallow letters; pillar has network of deep cracks