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29th Mar 2024  12:21  by Trigger

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

TP3747
TP3747

8th Nov 2023  10:18  by NJM

Gridref: TQ 65076 10004   FB Number: S7288  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

Bagged with the other TPs on the Herstmonceux Castle / Science College Campus on a day of such unspeakably foul weather security couldn't be bothered to come out of their cosy office to challenge us! This was my 1,000th Trig Point logged under this Profile name.

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22nd May 2022  16:15  by Nekyram

FB Number: S7288  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

Carried on walking the footpath from Solar trig . Walked down the drive , trig found in field.

15th Apr 2022  16:30  by Mickandkim

Gridref: TQ 65000 10000   FB Number: S7288  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

Many signs telling you not to proceed but due to not wearing my reading glasses i could not see them !!!

24th Oct 2021  10:15  by Chickenlicken7

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

15th Oct 2021  12:17  by TrigJS

Gridref: TQ 65072 10001   FB Number: S7288  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Pillar located in a clearing near to the Newton telescope dome. Parked to the east and walked to the pillar. The passive station reference for this location is C1TQ6510.

TP3747 The pillar.
TP3747 The spider.
TP3747 The flush bracket.

26th Jun 2021  07:28  by Trigger monster

FB Number: S7288  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

Walked from Windmill Hill. Approached from north past the observatory domes on the right then right onto the tarmac road and left over a gate where the were several Keep Out signs and one which said That Means You. Giving the telescope building a wide berth, the pillar is in a clearing just to its south. No views as it’s in the middle of woodland. Good find.

Herstmonceux Newton Dome Flush plate
Herstmonceux Newton Dome Looking south entering clearing
Herstmonceux Newton Dome Looking north towards the Dome, lightened photograph to enhance

4th Nov 2019  14:03  by asbown

Gridref: TQ 65077 10000   FB Number: S7288  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Just behind the dome.

4th Nov 2019  14:03  by The reluctant trigger

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

4th Jun 2019  15:21  by Border Peat

Gridref: TQ 65076 10006   FB Number: S7288  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

21st Jan 2019  09:30  by Mick Worsfold

Gridref: TQ 65000 10000   FB Number: S7288  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

23rd Apr 2018  12:39  by thejackrustles

FB Number: S7288  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Quick find behind what looks like an unused building, in a clearing which looks like it’s used for clay pigeon shooting.

Herstmonceux selfie ©thejackrustles
Herstmonceux collage ©thejackrustles

19th Apr 2018  16:10  by jonglew

Gridref: TQ 65074 09994   FB Number: S7288  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Parked at the church. Transit Meridian and Solar pillars bagged first, then on to this one sited a little south of the Newton telescope in a field. Centre cap missing, tube sealed with a composite disc; LHS sight hole open, front plug badly degraded.

Pillar - Newton Telescope Dome in background TP3747©jonglew
Pillar TP3747©jonglew
Spider TP3747©jonglew
Flush Bracket TP3747©jonglew

28th Aug 2017  11:23  by slateloose

Gridref: TQ 65000 10000   FB Number: S7288  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Bank Holiday Medieval Festival. Visited all three trig during visit. This one is just a short walk from the main footpath behind what looks to be a old unused telescope building.

13th Jun 2017  17:10  by rowleybirkin

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

4th Aug 2016  09:00  by mountainwanderer

FB Number: S7288  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

©mountainwanderer

5th Jun 2016  16:55  by trigangel

FB Number: S7288  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

23rd May 2016  17:06  by gerryu2

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

P118. Continued on the RoW until I came to a gate to the road. Instead, went immediately right up the road between log piles and straight to old observatory. Trig was behind building in a small field.

17th Feb 2016  00:00  by caroleengel

Gridref: TQ 65078 10010   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

27th Jun 2015  15:10  by peregrinus

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

plastic cap else vgc

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pillar n Newton dome

25th Mar 2015  18:21  by micks trigs

FB Number: S7288  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

parked in lay by just past castle entrance then walked up public footpath to a path on left which states private property as there was no one around and i was only going to leave footprints behind, i walked up to the old telescope housing still no one around walked round to the back and the pillar is in a field behind it. if you walk through the woods you could probably get away with not knowing it is private

©micks trigs

9th Apr 2014  15:19  by Carly_angel

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

29th Apr 2013  16:31  by geodruth

FB Number: S7288  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

A short stroll up from Herstmonceux Science Centre. Behind an Old Observatory.

Trig and Old Observatory ©geodruth

1st Apr 2013  13:12  by runblue

Gridref: TQ 65085 10002   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

19th Aug 2012  13:00  by lejogger

Gridref: TQ 65000 10000   FB Number: S7288  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

How very observant of them

11th May 2011  16:00  by Lathama

FB Number: S7288  Condition: Good  Score: 3/10

Adjacent to old observatory buildings in a clearing. Access on path through woods, not exactly public but no-one around. Plastic plug replacement. OS anti-vandal plaque. No paint ans sightholes closed.

30th Apr 2011  09:09  by THE CYCLIST

FB Number: S7288  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Continued on bridle path from church and earlier pillar then veered off through woods. In its own grassed paddock amongst woods.

6th Aug 2010  15:43  by jochta

FB Number: S7288  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

Near the disused Isaac Newton observatory building. Accessed from the bridleway to the north where it does say no public access. Plastic plug. Pillar is in extremely good condition.

Pillar and FB Good view of the Isaac Newton building from the pillar.
Top of pillar Showing plastic plug and good conidtion of pillar.

31st Dec 2008  12:00  by Cipollini

FB Number: S7288  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

In clearing to S of disused observatory. Path through woods from 1066 way - not obvious on ground but shortly after/before track to observatory. TP in very good condition with OS plaque. Dwarfed by observatory.

TP and Observatory ©Cipollini
Trig Point ©Cipollini

5th Feb 2006  20:27  by McShug

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

Found this one as I was setting a Geochach sight, was a bit of a bonis and my first log

23rd Oct 2005  12:15  by Managra

FB Number: S7288  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

The most disappointing thing about this was that the mirrors, often reported before and last logged by Griefmiester on 11th October 2005, have gone. I was gutted!! Does anyone know why? Set in the recently landscaped gardens of the old observatory, this bears no signs of any previous additions whatsoever. GPS plaque. Plastic plug - are we the first to see it???

Trigpoint ©Managra
Trigpoint ©Managra
Flush bracket ©Managra

11th Oct 2005  13:01  by Griefmiester

FB Number: S7288  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

Located in a clearing in the grounds of the old observatory, I managed to get to this one by parking on the road by the old closed car park and walking across the field then through some woods. Pillar is in good condition and as previously stated is wearing a mirror hat.

10th Oct 2005  12:00  by iainmac

FB Number: S7288  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

S7288
S7288
S7288

26th Oct 2004  15:13  by Alan Grove

Gridref: TQ 65072 10003   FB Number: S7288  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

Located in a clearing close to one of the observatory domes. Fitted with a strange mirror device.

TP3747 TP3747 - Herstmonceux©Alan Grove
TP3747 FB TP3747's Flush Bracket©Alan Grove
TP3747 Mirror The mirror device fitted to the pillar, and one trigpointer.©Alan Grove

1st Aug 2004  12:05  by barryhunter

Gridref: TQ 65075 10009   FB Number: S7288  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

A Primary station built in about 1954 to precisily position the new Royal Observitroy being built there, espially relative to its old position in Greenwich. Its now got a mirror device mounted which i persume was/is used to reflect signals of. It is aligned with a similar device on a building near to Solar Pillar. UPDATE: As Herstmonceux is the fundamental point of the OSGB36 datum, this pillar is still observered to on occasion to fix the position of the nearby Satalite Observertory, which on occasion does observe GPS orbits and therefore can confirm the UK position within a world Datum, although this isnt done by the OS. (the Active and Passive Stations are used by the OS for that purpose)

1st May 2004  15:28  by Sussex_Rambler

FB Number: S7288  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

Located near to the old observatory this mount has had a mirrored instrument bolted to the top which is in direct easterly alignment with the smaller observatories near to SOLAR os mount.

Flush Plate
Monument Mount including the mirror instrument in alignment with the SOLAR mount to the east.
©Sussex_Rambler
View to the North View to the north towards the observatory.

10th Apr 2004  11:45  by mickandshane

FB Number: S7288  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

This trig is behind the now defunct Isaac Newton Observatory up in the woods. The public footpath doesn't go past it but there are no fences to prevent a visit. Any trespass signs have faded away although a sign on the observatory warns that it ia a dangerous building. The Royal Observatory moved to Herstmonceux from Greenwich just after the war and then on to the Canary Islands in the 1990s - which is where the Isaac Newton telescope now is. This must explain the presence of these three trigs here. They all have late numbers which suggests being built later than the thirties. Transit Meridian has a GPS plaque and also a strange quite large mirror device bolted to the top which is directed towards Solar (the trees have been cut down to provide a clear sight path).

16th Mar 2003  12:00  by peregrinus

FB Number: S7288  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

vgc; double reflector fixed to top, covering spider; GPS;i n wdld by large obsvy with sightline cleared to view _11666 Solar