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29th Mar 2024  11:45  by Trigger

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

Unlucky timing, bumped into security who was feeding the chickens nearby and denied access to compound!

TP6562

8th Nov 2023  09:42  by NJM

Gridref: TQ 64533 10680   FB Number: 11492  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

After bagging Solar without challenge from site security I figured we could attempt to bag all the TPs on the Herstmonceux Castle estate / collage campus. The weather was so bloody awful I don't think security, who must have seen us, fancied leaving the warmth and shelter of their security control hut as we walked directly past them! Given how limited the views are the atrocious weather didn't matter, other than raindrops getting on the camera lens as we tried to take photographs in the teeth of the storm.

View North
View West Storm's OS Pillar #597

22nd May 2022  13:15  by Nekyram

FB Number: 11492  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Parked side of road .took footpath through woods. That brought us to two gates. Went into the gardeners area .

15th Oct 2021  12:58  by TrigJS

Gridref: TQ 64532 10682   FB Number: 11492  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

Pillar in a good condition located in the gardeners area. Accessed via the public footpath to the west. The 1982 computation date for this pillar may have been part of an effort to link various coordinate systems, including the Greenwich prime meridian, together before the Cooke Reversible Transit Circle (TP15262) in the building to the north was moved to La Palma.

TP6562 The pillar.
TP6562 The spider.
TP6562 The flush bracket.

30th Sep 2021  13:59  by orlando rat

Gridref: TQ 64532 10678   FB Number: 11492  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

I spotted the sign that said, no entry, but I didn't see anyone around. Someone did go past whilst I was as the pillar but they were focussed elsewhere.

Transit Meridian

26th Jun 2021  07:50  by Trigger monster

FB Number: 11492  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

About 800 metres almost due north from the GPS live pillar. Walk past the Castle keeping it on the right. Up to a small vegetable plot with a couple of green houses. Pillar is there. Uninteresting location and no views but a lovely high number on the FB, gets extra points.

Herstmonceux Transit Meridian Flush plate
Herstmonceux Transit Meridian Gardening area

20th Jun 2021  13:25  by Paula & Rob Worthington

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

©Paula & Rob Worthington

4th Nov 2019  14:50  by asbown

Gridref: TQ 64530 10685   FB Number: 11492  Condition: Damaged  Score: 5/10

Damage to two edges, security stopped us on route and refused permission so we ended up making hard work of it.

4th Nov 2019  14:50  by The reluctant trigger

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

4th Jun 2019  13:51  by Border Peat

Gridref: TQ 64535 10683   FB Number: 11492  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

©Border Peat

21st Jan 2019  10:00  by Mick Worsfold

Gridref: TQ 64500 10600   FB Number: 11492  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

23rd Apr 2018  13:18  by thejackrustles

FB Number: 11492  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

On the way bagged the benchmark on the church, lovely and well worth a look inside. http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm39806. This trig is in the gardeners area for the castle grounds, spoke to gardeners and off I went, the name is now intriguing me and I’ll have to look it up.

Transit Meridian selfie ©thejackrustles
Solar Meridian Transit? ©thejackrustles
BM39806 - Cut Mark: Herstmonceux, All Saints' Church ©thejackrustles
Herstmonceux Castle from ROW ©thejackrustles
Transit Meridian collage ©thejackrustles

19th Apr 2018  15:41  by jonglew

Gridref: TQ 64532 10682   FB Number: 11492  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Parked at the church. Walked back up the road to start of a RoW (TQ 6430 1039). Veered off NE through woodland, over a couple of gates and into the kitchen gardens. Pillar has an upturned pot for a cap, beneath which is an original centre cap, raised lettering.

Pillar TP6562©jonglew
Spider TP6562©jonglew
Flush Bracket TP6562©jonglew

28th Aug 2017  12:00  by slateloose

Gridref: TQ 64500 10600   FB Number: 11492  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Bank Holiday Medieval Festival visited all three trig on this site. This would on any other day be the hardest to get access being in the gardeners work area / greenhouse but we camped in the next field.

2nd Jan 2017  10:15  by mountainwanderer

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

©mountainwanderer

23rd May 2016  17:42  by gerryu2

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

From near the church, walked up the road by the gatehouse and then on the right is a RoW through the woods. Followed the tracks to a gate with barbed wire on top and no admittance signs. Hopped over and then hopped over the immediate next gate with the same signs. Leads you into their gardening / allotment area. No one around at this time so eventually found the trig after a wee search in the head high nettles. Ouch.

17th Feb 2016  00:00  by caroleengel

Gridref: TQ 64533 10686   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

In brambles which could make access difficult in summer. No chance of gardening as there was evidence of people working nearby

25th Mar 2015  17:35  by micks trigs

FB Number: 11492  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

bagged this after Solar, quick walk through woods brings you to fence as there was no one around it was a quick jump over fence, pillar is situated just behind some out buildings semi covered in brambles and some sort of bowl on the top

13th Apr 2014  11:30  by jochta

FB Number: 11492  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Bit of a tricky one to get to. Tried the honest approach but the guard in his hut at the end of the driveway said it was all locked up and wouldn't let me walk up to bag the pillar. Easiest way is to park by the nearby church, walk back up the road and onto the bridleway on the right marked by a boundary stone. Walk through the woods (lovely bluebells) to a gate at the end. It's a quick hop over two gates (both marked no admittance to unauthorised persons) to find the pillar just inside the castle grounds adjacent to a greenhouse and shed. Pillar half-buried in nettles and has a concrete "bowl" on top hiding the plug.

Pillar and Flush Bracket Showing the pillar half-buried in nettles.
Top of Pillar Showing concrete "bowl" covering the plug.

29th Apr 2013  15:31  by geodruth

FB Number: 11492  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

A bit of a lonely one this. Walked up from castle. Still has concrete bowl on top. Past its best :-(

©geodruth

1st Apr 2013  12:58  by runblue

Gridref: TQ 64537 10680   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

19th Aug 2012  14:10  by lejogger

Gridref: TQ 64500 10600   FB Number: 11492  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

Sun hat

11th May 2011  15:30  by Lathama

FB Number: 11492  Condition: Good  Score: 3/10

In a sort of garden nursery area just off footpath through woods. Concrete bowl still on top. Sightholes closed. Very quiet but I didn't linger as it's definitely in a no-go area.

31st Dec 2008  12:25  by Cipollini

FB Number: 11492  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

Through woods from footpath to W. TP by greenhouses and plant nursery with odd stone 'cap' on top. Area felt rather odd and I had a distinct sense I shouldnt be there - the Blair Witch Project came into my head - so I didnt linger !

Transit Meridian TP ©Cipollini
TP with stone cap ©Cipollini

28th Apr 2007  09:20  by Midnight

FB Number: 11492  Condition: Good  Score: 3/10

Also approached on footpath from the church road. Loverly walk throught the woods with hundreds of bluebells. Before the garden bit there were many fallen trees that required a bit of clambering.

8th May 2006  16:55  by Griefmiester

FB Number: 11492  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

I approached this one from a foot path off the road to the Church, then about 500 meters through the woods - pillar is located in what looks like a garden area for the Observatory. Pillar in good condition and still wearing a bowl(er) hat.

19th Mar 2006  18:31  by McShug

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

2nd of the day and after a quick look about to see if anybody was looking I poped over to take a look. Bowl is still there.

22nd Oct 2005  12:15  by Managra

FB Number: 11492  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Didn't actually find this one until Sunday 23rd October after we'd checked the website. At the time of our visit, there were two gardeners who knew where it was and what it was called - encouraging! The stone bowl is still there. Metal plug with raised lettering.

Trigpoint ©Managra
Flush bracket ©Managra

4th Sep 2005  11:28  by peregrinus

FB Number: 11492  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

vgc, metal cap wide letters, in plant nursery area in front of greenhouse, apparent observatory building to N. No apparent sightline to other Observatory trigs 11666 & S7288

11492 fb ©peregrinus
11492 top ©peregrinus
11492 trig ©peregrinus
11492 trig ©peregrinus

10th Apr 2004  11:15  by mickandshane

FB Number: 11492  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

This pillar is in the castle grounds but in the estate nursery section and out of bounds to the public (theoretically). Its a short hop over the fence and about 50 yards away next to greenhouses etc. The trig had some kind of concrete bowl on top but I don't think this was for OS purposes. Plug with raised lettering.