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20th Aug 2023  10:39  by Ian Robinson

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

In the middle of a copse

13th Aug 2023  14:00  by Tonka

Gridref: SE 49500 50250   FB Number: S1880  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 4/10

Restricted by time today, so a TP close to home and a few BMs, and then dash back again. Trig now enveloped by a small woodland, but easy to access along field footpath. No views, but the feel is a "very flat location".

Flush Bracket
trig point
Landscape

29th Mar 2023  00:00  by Ronaldo333

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

Long Marston Hill [Long Marston S1880] from GR: SE 49296 50287

28th Jan 2022  09:53  by eon

Gridref: SE 49504 50260   FB Number: S1880  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

(2376) Parked on Butt Hedge and took the PRoW to the pillar. Not quite a ten minute walk, and the going was pretty good and firm. One or two dog walkers met along the way. Pillars sits within a large copse - low surrounding fence pretty broken down, so that was no real obstacle. From there to the pillar the ground was easily moved across - picked a good time of year to visit then going by previous visitors undergrowth filled photos. Slight damaged to one of the corners of the top, but that aside all in good condition. Still retains its original centre cap. Pillar history: Built on the 18th of October 1937, at a cost of £4 11s 3d. Last maintained by the OS in March of 1975.

Approach ©eon
Long Marston ©eon
Pillar ©eon
FB S1880 ©eon
Top - showing damage ©eon
Top - detail ©eon

31st Oct 2021  13:10  by BasilDowl

FB Number: S1880  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 7/10

Another pillar long on the to-do list, and another great one to visit. I tried to park at the pull-in on Wetherby Road to cut the walking down, but couldn't get in, so parked up in Long Marston and followed the PROW south. As others have noted, it is easy farmland walking, and you're expecting this to be a hedge-bound pillar - but there is a large copse not on either 1:25k or 1:50k OS mapping, and the pillar is well hidden inside. There is a good worn trod and a knackered low fence to hop over before you're in the trees, and the trig sits in the middle of the copse a fair way in. Someone has cut a tree just to the right of the pillar, but it seems safe here - it's in pretty good condition except for a chunk missing from the top corner and slightly exposed foundations. Original cap. A good trig to visit in a great location, and very easy access, as you're nowhere near any buildings/farms or in view as you divert from the PROW.

Approaching the copse
The trod and fence into the trees
The pillar (1)
The pillar (2)
The pillar (3)
The top of the pillar
Original cap
The flush bracket
Damage

22nd May 2021  18:50  by The Trudges

FB Number: S1880  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 6/10

Parked in roadside pull in just after start of PROW, followed path to hedge line then cut across into woods, Trig in good condition with all its metal work, small piece missing on the back right corner, Trig at the side of a fallen tree with no real views only the resounding woods it's lost in

Spider and Centre cap
Flush Bracket
View from spider
Trig

22nd May 2021  09:40  by Hands

Gridref: SE 49505 50259   FB Number: S1880  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 4/10

Visited the Trig from Long Marston and concluded with a walk around the battlefield.

©Hands

1st May 2021  15:25  by dharris

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

24th May 2020  18:12  by Jorvik Wanderers

Gridref: SE 49494 50258   FB Number: S1880  Condition: Good  Score: 8/10

©Jorvik Wanderers
©Jorvik Wanderers

12th May 2020  17:42  by COVID Trig Point Challenge

FB Number: S1880  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

1st Mar 2020  13:38  by peregrinus

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

Revisit, easy find currently, in open woodland

Pillar in open woodland

16th Feb 2019  14:55  by robinhood

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 8/10

2/4 Cycled from Poppleton trig. My map 1:25k 2000 edition didn't show woodland which now straddles the hedge the trig was near. Met a bloke and his dog who I thought was a local farmer and asked if it was his land, it wasn't. It turned out he had military background and had used trig pillars to align their big guns. Though local he wasn't aware of the trig and helped me find it. The woodland is used for rearing game birds so is fenced off, but it's lower on the E side at approx 495503. On the way he pointed out York Minster, the White Horse to the N and the Cromwell Tree associated with the nearby battle of Marston Moor. Worth an 8 for all that.

18th Nov 2018  14:30  by Nekyram

FB Number: S1880  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

Parked at start of footpath, and followed up to hedge line. Entered middle of wood to find trig.

24th Dec 2017  14:00  by paulxtr

FB Number: S1880  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 6/10

From layby to W. A tree has been felled next to the pillar and on arrival the FB side of the trig was heavily obscured by branches. I did a little gardening and the trig is largely visible again.

Long Marston ©paulxtr

23rd Dec 2017  10:35  by rupertal

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

29th Jun 2017  15:28  by Aye Jimmy

Gridref: SE 49505 50264   FB Number: S1880  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

From NW along RoW at first, then field edge and into wood. Trig well buried in nettles.

Long Marston The TP. One sight hole to E partially open.
Long Marston The FB, faces W.
Long Marston Top of trig, OS cap indented letters. Chunk missing from trig corner.

26th Jun 2017  00:00  by dogwalking

Gridref: SE 49503 50260   FB Number: S1880  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

parked at start of prow along the path then down side of wood posts overgrown unable to count them over wire fence then looked around for the pllar found it covered in nettles not easy to find at this time of year glad i had my gps

27th May 2017  11:41  by Earby Rambler

FB Number: S1880  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 8/10

Visited on a bonus day out thanks to eldest daughter,I walked up from Acomb after 2 bus journey from Fulford Designer Outlet.I made my way back to Rufforth from the Bridle Way/footpath at Hutton Wandesley.I then got the 412 bus back to York & had a pint of Thatchers Gold in the Punch Bowl Wetherspoons.Then went to meet daughter for lift to Leeds where we are meeting up with rest of the family to get ready for the Adam Ant concert at Leeds Arena.

Way up/Approach
Way in SE 49476 50283
Trig

7th Mar 2017  13:13  by theposhbloke

FB Number: S1880  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

Thanks to vegibagger's notes, found quite easily. Interesting that the woods aren't shown on OS map, since the woods seem to have been there some time. A tree had been felled in the woods which barely missed the pillar when it fell. Some of the branches cover one side of the pillar - see photo. Couldn't move the felled tree.

Felled tree barely missing the pillar

6th Sep 2015  07:18  by THE CYCLIST

FB Number: S1880  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

3rd pillar of day. Easy walk down West side of wood as crop in field now harvested. Counted 27 posts, but thought I'd missed some. Stepped over fence and straight forward through trees, very surprisingly, spotted the pillar to my left without any search! Heading back beside wood I found a deflated silvery 18th Birthday balloon, so I back tracked and tied it against the fence at the point I crossed as a marker for future visitors.

30th Aug 2015  13:02  by jamiekeighley

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

Parked on road to East. Easily found due to vegibaggers notes. Liked it in there, nice and hidden away.

©jamiekeighley

5th Oct 2014  09:32  by Particle

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

Third time successful thanks to vegibagger's notes. Didn't have much time for searching around on previous attempts. Couple of burrow holes going underneath it too.

16th Apr 2014  12:15  by trigofthedump

FB Number: S1880  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 7/10

Really good fun finding this one. Tried, to no avail, last year spending time wondering around the field! Bagged it now.

20th Sep 2013  16:57  by Whats the Point

Gridref: SE 49522 50266   FB Number: S1880  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 3/10

Took a bit of wandering through the brambles to find it. Couldn't count the fence posts due to vegetation and took early entrance to wood by broken fence. Looking back at vegibagger's log I was on wrong side of wood should have been on west side not east.

Long Marston

14th Jun 2013  16:17  by CJO

Gridref: SE 49503 50265   FB Number: S1880  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

chip missing from top. otherwise intact. dense woodland

S1880 evidence of Vegibaggers plaster of paris casting remains

31st Mar 2013  10:00  by The RockKnocker

FB Number: S1880  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 6/10

Me Marie and Rocky the dog enjoyed finding this trig.

Flush Bracket Nice walk in the woods to find this one
The RockKnocker Found the trig
Rocky at the nearby resovoir Our dog Rocky at the resovoir near the trig point.

27th Nov 2012  14:15  by vegibagger

FB Number: S1880  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

yet another visit, this time to moderately successfully make a cast of the top though didn't remember to take the care to put a little bit of clay round the edge of the central circle with the result that a little bit of plaster of paris stuck and I forgot to put my Swiss army knife in my pocket to clean it off. I'll have to go back!! For help of those without GPS to find it, count fence posts, from the northern end, down the west side of the woodland. Between the 28th and 29th post, notice a gap that I've created with secateurs between the trees. The trig is about 7 rows of trees back, visible from west but surrounded by brambles on its east side.

16th Nov 2012  13:16  by vegibagger

FB Number: S1880  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

I went with intention of trying to make a plaster of paris cast of the top of the pillar, because it is one local to York that has the original central OS plug with recessed letters. Last time I'd visited in Feb I failed to find it. Found it this time but frame I'd made to sleeve round the top was too small and I'd failed to notice on pics of the chip off the Se side of the top that also meant I couldn't take a cast today. For help of those without GPS to find it, count fence posts, from the northern end, down the west side of the woodland. Between the 28th and 29th post, notice a gap that I've created with secateurs between the trees. The trig is about 7 rows of trees back, surrounded by brambles.

6th Sep 2012  14:29  by slateloose

Gridref: SE 49500 50200   FB Number: S1880  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

This trig is well and truly out of the way in this new plantation of tree,and is also hiding in nettles and brambles. Would not have found it without the G.P.S.

12th May 2012  10:40  by ted

FB Number: S1880  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

Revisited whilst looking for the nearby bolt; trig well hidden.

Long Marston trig
Long Marston top
Long Marston FB

25th Apr 2012  11:19  by trig-man

Gridref: SE 49504 50260   FB Number: S1880  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

2nd Mar 2012  20:11  by PeteBoggs

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

Followed PROW from minor road then up to wood and trig is in there but takes some finding now

©PeteBoggs
©PeteBoggs

19th Feb 2012  14:20  by painterman61

FB Number: S1880  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

Parked at entry to footpath walked to middle of plantation glad for GPS here! Good time to visit not to much undergrowth at present,trig in vgc cap/plug no views.

trig ©painterman61
trig ©painterman61
top showing damage ©painterman61
cap/plug ©painterman61
fb ©painterman61

10th Oct 2011  12:57  by Border Peat

Gridref: SE 49504 50249   FB Number: S1880  Condition: Good  Score: 4/10

parked in lane followed public footpath to wood,up side of wood,trig about 10 metres into the undergrowth of wood.

S1880©Border Peat

3rd Oct 2011  13:05  by wanderer

FB Number: S1880  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 1/10

Protective clothing advised

7th Mar 2011  00:00  by caroleengel

Gridref: SE 49504 50259   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

23rd May 2010  00:00  by Mickandkim

Gridref: SE 49504 50258   FB Number: S1880  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

Took some finding Trig in middle of woods enter woods at highest part of field Trig can not be seen from field, Hidden in brambles

6th Jan 2009  14:20  by splash

FB Number: S1880  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

Trees now block the view of the trig from the field boundary. Took some finding in amongst the trees and undergrowth

2nd Aug 2008  19:10  by Trigger

FB Number: S1880  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

19th Jan 2008  22:37  by seanmac

Gridref: SE 49504 50261   FB Number: S1880  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

Trees have grown a little bit since the last visit.

me at the trig

2nd May 2006  15:30  by MAC.HAWK

FB Number: S1880  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

Second trig during a 17 mile circular from Taddy. In a couple of years time this might be a bit of a beggar to find (certainly in summer). I came up from Long Marston along the ROW, on seeing the fenced plantation on the left I turned off the ROW and followed the field edge briefly to the fencing, here I turned to follow the fencing heading right (you could just as easily go left but by going right you are covered from view from the nearby farms). If approaching as I did from the ROW the building to the right that you can see the top chimneys of (as you rise the hill towards the trig) is an electricity sub-station and not a house. Plantation too high for any view from the trig today. No cars, on foot.

Long Marston

9th Mar 2006  07:20  by Theo D Lite

FB Number: S1880  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

My local! Easiest way is to walk up western edge of fence/coppice boundary. Trig can still be spotted about 15m in. On older maps, building adjacent to trig is now removed.

29th Jan 2005  12:00  by peregrinus

FB Number: S1880  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

top chipped, metal cap shallow letters, in pltn of young conifers

1st Jan 2005  12:00  by iainmac

FB Number: S1880  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 3/10

Revisited to photograph

S1880
S1880
S1880
S1880

13th Nov 2004  11:50  by ted

FB Number: S1880  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 7/10

Plug intact; chunk out of top corner; otherwise OK. Located in the centre of a recent plantation. Views of York Minster and Kilburn White Horse.

Long Marston trig
Long Marston trig - looking north
Long Marston spider
Long Marston FB

31st Aug 2003  12:00  by iainmac

FB Number: S1880  Condition: Not Logged  Score: 3/10

Tricky one to find - its in the middle of a bit of scrub between fields.

S1880

26th Feb 2003  11:41  by manonabike

Gridref: SE 49500 50200   FB Number: S1880  Condition: Not Logged  Score: 5/10

13th Jan 2003  23:26  by page28

FB Number: S1880  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

7th May 2001  10:00  by sleepwalker

FB Number: S1880  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

Approached from the B1224.

31st Mar 1999  11:13  by vegibagger

FB Number: S1880  Condition: Damaged  Score: 5/10

big chunk out of one corner