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25th Jan 2024  05:55  by Trigger

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

TP4749
TP4749

20th Nov 2023  12:07  by NewickChris

Gridref: TQ 43846 00986   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Tucked away amongst trees, but relatively easy to find

Tucked away in trees

24th Oct 2023  13:27  by Windywalker

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

Hidden from sight, first locate the bench on the open field, then behind it leads a track into a small wood which leads straight to it.

©Windywalker

12th Aug 2022  15:27  by WuzzerL

FB Number: S3976  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

Parked on estate and wandered up the steps across the field to this one easy bag

12th Aug 2022  15:26  by Pritch227

FB Number: S3976  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

just up from the estate,Alistair cartys replacement cap isn't stuck on anymore so won't be there much longer.

©Pritch227

21st May 2022  14:55  by Wheresthatpenguin

Gridref: TQ 43846 00986   FB Number: S3976  Condition: Good  Score: 8/10

Parked on Church Hill. Took the public right of way (PRoW) into the Meeching Down park. Once in the park, left the PRoW and crossed the park onto the northern side, where the pillar can be found within a clearing within the wood. The cap was missing, so I replaced it. There was some hardened residue around the circular rim from where an asphalt plug once replaced the original cap. Needed to knock that out in order to replace the cap, which I did with 10mm cold chisel and a club hammer. The old asphalt plug can be seen in @Griefmiester's photo dated 21.9.05, but is then reported missing by @AlanGrove just 2 weeks later on 4.10.05

Pillar
Flush Bracket
Spider/Theodolite Mount Before (top photo) & after (bottom photo) new cap fitted. Middle photo shows rim once asphalt residue removed
Pillar

18th Nov 2021  11:30  by Mick Worsfold

Gridref: TQ 43800 00900   FB Number: S3976  Condition: Good  Score: 4/10

5th Apr 2021  15:45  by travelnshit

FB Number: S3976  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

12th Dec 2020  09:36  by Trigger monster

FB Number: S3976  Condition: Good  Score: 4/10

Access from footpath on opposite side of main road to the golf club. Onto a small park area then bear left, pillar in amongst trees and scrub vegetation. No particular views. Good find though.

Newhaven Flush plate

18th Sep 2020  18:13  by slateloose

Gridref: TQ 43800 00900   FB Number: S3976  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Easy walk up from Gibbon Road, trigpoint in open space area .Spotted a muntjac deer near trigpoint.

15th Jul 2020  13:00  by danmaisiebex

Gridref: TQ 43846 00986   FB Number: S3976  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

In trees 50m to the N (R) of the bridleway on the other side of a small open area of grass. Graffiti on the pillar.

6th Mar 2019  13:40  by blackboot29

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

17th Apr 2018  12:31  by jonglew

Gridref: TQ 43846 00985   FB Number: S3976  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Parked roadside by a school (TQ 4420 0111). Trig sits in scrubby woodland to N side of community grass land, a few young families enjoying picnics etc - seemed a miserable and unkempt place but takes all sorts. Pillar has minor chipping to top edges; asphalt residue around the rim of the open central tube; rear sight hole open. No views.

Pillar TP4749©jonglew
Spider TP4749©jonglew
Flush Bracket TP4749©jonglew

2nd Jul 2017  12:00  by Ossie

FB Number: S3976  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

31U 291374E 5630706N Now surrounded by trees and bushes but easy to find. Been a bit vandalised

14th Apr 2017  11:18  by mountainwanderer

FB Number: S3976  Condition: Damaged  Score: 5/10

Unfortunate graffiti (male genetalia) on all sides of trip an rubbish surrounds

©mountainwanderer

7th Mar 2017  00:00  by caroleengel

Gridref: TQ 43849 00989   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Path into wood now next to new bench

29th Sep 2016  18:55  by Stoichkov

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

Good previous log directions allowed me to locate this without use of a map or gps. The path from the patch of grassland is easy to locate and the trig is easy to spot once in the woods. Unfortunately it's been covered in graffiti which is a pity. A good trig hunt and unusual wooded location

Meeching Down The only side without 'rude' graffiti but still covered

19th Apr 2014  00:00  by DeniseMc

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

8th Apr 2014  12:15  by tomytucker

Gridref: TQ 43800 00900   FB Number: S3976  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

nice and sunny trig easy to find

8th Apr 2014  00:00  by rams

Gridref: TQ 43800 00900   FB Number: S3976  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

28th Apr 2013  09:32  by runblue

Gridref: TQ 43847 00989   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 2/10

©runblue

27th Feb 2013  10:46  by Malpas Wanderer

FB Number: S3976  Condition: Good  Score: 4/10

Plug missing, view obscured by trees.

5th May 2012  07:21  by THE CYCLIST

FB Number: S3976  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Before searching for it asked adjacent householder as she left her house but she knew nothing of it. Well worn track North into wood from grassed open area. All views obscured by trees.

20th Nov 2011  14:56  by qmaster

FB Number: S3976  Condition: Good  Score: 4/10

No views and some recent grafitti

©qmaster
©qmaster

31st Dec 2010  08:40  by Cipollini

FB Number: S3976  Condition: Good  Score: 3/10

Easy enough to find - in scrubby wood opposite footpath sign, with access in just to E. Plug missing - just a void - lichen growth, and old grafitti. No view !

Meeching Down TP ©Cipollini

16th Apr 2010  14:00  by trigangel

FB Number: S3976  Condition: Good  Score: 3/10

Fun finding this one. For those without GPS, in the bushes opposite the footpath marker across the fareway. Well beaten track in, just East.

©trigangel

16th Apr 2010  14:00  by TrigBadger

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

©TrigBadger

19th Jun 2008  18:45  by red chicken

FB Number: S3976  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Strange thing to find this one in the middle of a wood, funny to think that the wood has grown up around this pillar!

22nd Dec 2007  09:33  by senrabyar

Gridref: TQ 43761 00910   FB Number: S3976  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

3rd Sep 2007  17:55  by mitsiman

FB Number: S3976  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Bit hard to find, but with previous clues not too bad - after all, they're always at the top of the hill, right ? :-) Plug missing and starting to rust, looked a bit out of place in the woods !

©mitsiman
©mitsiman

21st Oct 2005  17:15  by Managra

FB Number: S3976  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

As other loggers have noted, this one's quite difficult to find, but we found it with just the map. No views as it's completely surrounded by woodland. The plug, as noted by Mick and Shane and Sagi, is tarmac, but has now been pushed through.

Trigpoint ©Managra
Flush bracket ©Managra

11th Oct 2005  12:00  by iainmac

FB Number: S3976  Condition: Good  Score: 2/10

S3976
S3976
S3976

4th Oct 2005  14:07  by Alan Grove

Gridref: TQ 43856 00998   FB Number: S3976  Condition: Good  Score: 4/10

Located in a dense area of woodland close to an open space. Difficult to find, even with GPS. The tarmac plug is missing, only two weeks after it was last photographed. Why?

TP4749 TP4749 - Meeching Down©Alan Grove
TP4749 FB TP4749's Flush Bracket©Alan Grove
TP4749 Top Top of the pillar showing the missing plug©Alan Grove

21st Sep 2005  17:28  by Griefmiester

FB Number: S3976  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

Located completed surrounded by trees between two areas of common land, this would be almsot impossible to find without GPS.

4th Sep 2005  12:00  by peregrinus

FB Number: S3976  Condition: Good  Score: 4/10

vgc, asphalt plug, by path in open section of scrubby woodland, 35m N from edge of grassland

Montaged by J Rouse ©peregrinus

15th May 2004  14:45  by mickandshane

FB Number: S3976  Condition: Good  Score: 4/10

This one could be quite difficult to find as it is in overgrown woodland at the top of the down. Tarmac plug