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15th Dec 2023  11:32  by JoeNTMY

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

Long gone

20th Jul 2023  14:34  by mralrule

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Gone… nothing more to add

15th Apr 2023  17:47  by Earby Rambler

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Visited whilst on day out with Painterman61.

15th Apr 2023  17:47  by painterman61

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Revisit

10th Mar 2023  17:00  by Pritch227

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gone.....

©Pritch227

10th Mar 2023  17:00  by WuzzerL

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12th Feb 2022  12:30  by Mickandkim

Gridref: SK 34900 89600   FB Number: S4137  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 1/10

Gone

16th Jan 2022  09:45  by Wheresthatpenguin

Gridref: SK 34976 89676   FB Number: S4137  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 1/10

Gone. Destroyed March 1967

Location

8th Dec 2021  10:41  by Duncan68

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

No sign of pillar although ther is some unusual metal and stone remains near by possibly from anti aircraft guns

©Duncan68

4th Mar 2021  11:30  by Bert

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

15th Feb 2020  00:00  by Ronaldo333

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5th Aug 2019  13:10  by Cootking

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Gone

21st Jul 2019  06:44  by eon

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

(1464) Parked up at Standish Bank, and from there it was a short walk to the location. 3 for 1 trigs at this spot. Also nearby is a rivet, and not far from where I parked is another trig-point. Not a bad haul! Pillars long gone, though. Cracking views to be had of Sheffield.

Shirecliffe Gunsite. ©eon

20th Dec 2017  11:55  by haighr01

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As with Wincobank Hill, I felt the need to ascend from the Don so parked at Aldi on the A61. Rutland Road is steep, but eventually a public footpath comes off left and I kept taking the higher paths, the mast is a good guide, keeping a football pitch to my right. Although there was no pillar to be found this is a most interesting area and worth a visit anyway for the gunsite, two areas, and the views over the Sheffield skyline and beyond. Greno Knoll, Birley Edge, Loxley Common all easily visible if you know those trigs. And the Don Valley over Hillsborough. Sheffield has a complex geography which through this hobby I am learning so much more.

Sheffield, South Yorkshire City Skyline
Yorkshire Defence Greno Knoll, centre, Don Valley centre left
Shirecliffe Gunsite The bagging area

25th Oct 2017  19:45  by weekender

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

27th Aug 2017  23:58  by Ant1974

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22nd Aug 2017  11:45  by robinhood

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I've been wanting to visit this trig site and the ridge it's on for years. I finally got there today as my mate, Nobby, suggested this walk instead of the more picturesque moors W of Sheffield. No trig, but the base of a WW2 AA gun site is still there as are the remains of a bandstand where we had lunch and a beer. lt was built, I was told, by trainee bricklayers from the nearby (but now closed) college. The landfill site below the edge is now being covered over, eventually with vegetation. Views of industry, housing, fields an moors in the distance.

6th Jun 2017  12:14  by Griefmiester

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

No pillars but worth a look :)

29th Apr 2017  00:00  by dogwalking

Gridref: SK 34900 89600   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 3/10

gone nice views

5th Feb 2017  13:41  by dugswell2

FB Number: GONE  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 3/10

I skied near here in the early 1990s. Parked on the road then an easy amble up the sloping football pitch.

17th Dec 2016  08:22  by painterman61

FB Number: S4137  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 5/10

Easy walk up from main road long gone

site ©painterman61
gunsite ©painterman61

27th Oct 2016  00:00  by rupertal

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17th May 2016  12:00  by ThomasPenn

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Great views, no pillar though

17th Jul 2015  12:48  by trigging on an island

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3 for the price of 1 bargain here was enough to tip me over the 700 pillars mark at the end of this particular bagging spree

11th Feb 2015  15:43  by pkbathrooms

Gridref: SK 34976 89676   FB Number: S4137  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 5/10

all gone.

11th Jan 2015  14:29  by Father Ted

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

Police are on the look our for a garden containing three ex-trig pillars. A very blustery day up here today with wife, son and dog.

3rd Aug 2014  14:43  by CJO

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

Gunsite remains but no pillar or its BLOCK replacement.

Shirecliffe Gunsite

18th Dec 2011  10:00  by peregrinus

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According to www.bench-marks.org.uk, the FB was initially S4137, is recorded as having been replaced by S6755, and then later by a reused unprefixed FB _2732. The location SK 34976 89676 is on or close to the footpath, an area of rocky slabs, no sign of concrete base or bolt, a few metres NW of the large gun emplacement base. I made a half-hearted search of the bushes but nothing concrete found...

Trig would have been in foreground
Gunsite base with trig site in background

3rd May 2011  14:45  by MAC.HAWK

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Number 4 of the day. Fabulous view of the landfill site but a somewhat more extensive urban view over the rest of the city. NCOF.

21st Mar 2011  10:30  by PeteBoggs

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Parked on cul-de-sac Standish Way and followed prow up to gun site location.Council tip not too bad today

©PeteBoggs

5th Jun 2010  17:45  by craftinessa

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5th Jun 2010  17:45  by swampysean

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29th Mar 2009  13:30  by asbown

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funny how things turn out,I parked in the football car park and walked up to where the trig use to stand,when I got back to the car park the football match had finished and I was about to get locked in,if I had not missed out hill top trig by mistake earlier I would have been in trouble,if you can ignore the tip the views are good.

11th Nov 2008  14:04  by splash

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Parked near a block of flats opposite a park entrance. One of the paths leads up to the view point and an old gun placement, but no trig. The view is some what different.

25th Feb 2007  12:50  by The Plumber

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4th Dec 2006  16:20  by rhayader_wanderer

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Interesting location and different kind of view. Parked in estate to the N and hopped over gate to open land. base of the gunsite remains but little else of merrit

3rd Jan 2005  13:30  by ted

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Looked around but no sign of the base. My best guess is that it was close to the view point. Less than scenic views of a municipal rubbish tip with seagulls everywhere. Trigonomy notes "Destroyed 3/73 (OS)". Note added 6 Dec 2005 - GRP reported to Trigonomy that this was S4137.

Cholera Gardens monument This appears on at least two maps (including the current OS 1:25000) with a trig station symbol. The location is just to the East of Sheffield railway station. I don't think there was ever a pillar here -presumably the monument itself was used for triangulation. No sign of any benchmarks or surface markers. Visited 3 Jan 2005 14:45.
Shirecliffe Gunsite OS 1" The Peak District Tourist Map, 1958

7th Feb 2004  12:00  by peregrinus

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Good viewpoint (apart from rubbish tip) - and Sheffield :-) but no trace of trig. Research at OS HQ by Rod Sladen in 2006 indicates that Shirecliffe Gunsite trig was S4137, then S6755 and finally _2732. All very odd!

13th Jan 2003  09:48  by Morseman

Gridref: SK 34863 90123   FB Number: None  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 3/10

This was a gun site in WWII and possibly did not have a traditional pillar. Good views over Sheffield, ignoring the council rubbish dump at the base of the hill!

Shirecliffe Gunsite This may have been the Trig Point used by Ordnance Survey instead of a traditional trig point pillar.