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13th Sep 2023  21:52  by StewB

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

Look out for a 'mini Blencathra' on the skyline from the beach & StewB's beach cairn (if still there)...More details accompanied by photey under Thornbank entry!

17th Jun 2023  11:15  by Earby Rambler

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

Visited whilst on day out with Painterman61.

Pillar

17th Jun 2023  11:15  by painterman61

FB Number: S5766  Condition: Moved  Score: 7/10

Revisit from the North kind farmer allowed parking at High Hyton farm nice walk out still there

Trig ©painterman61
Fb ©painterman61
First look ©painterman61
Cliff top view ©painterman61

23rd Apr 2023  11:55  by graham65

FB Number: S5766  Condition: Moved  Score: 5/10

Parked near whitebeck church followed footpath to cumbria coastal path . Took track to beach found trig half way up a clay cliff. Moved due to coastal erosion

12th Mar 2023  15:55  by A1Mushroom

FB Number: S5766  Condition: Moved  Score: 5/10

Parked (considerably) on the road up to Gutterby, there is a private road sign just after the rail crossing, but if figured it was a Sunday and raining hard so no one cared. Followed the ROW to the beach and then along to the trig which still rests on its back half way up the face.

2nd Aug 2022  17:57  by The Trudges

FB Number: S5766  Condition: Toppled  Score: 5/10

Flush Bracket ©The Trudges
View looking at spider©The Trudges
Sleeping Trig
Spider with original centre cap ©The Trudges
Trig View from above©The Trudges
View at Trig from beach ©The Trudges

2nd Aug 2022  17:46  by MickSan

FB Number: S5766  Condition: Damaged  Score: 5/10

©MickSan
©MickSan

17th Jul 2022  16:45  by Thomas David Whitaker

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Not Logged  Score: 9/10

Thank you Aye Jimmy and others for reassuring me that the pillar was findable. So the pillar gets 5 for surviving the slide down the cliff and a extra 4 for my efforts to find it 2nd time round. I checked the tides to make sure I could view the cliffs from a shallow angle and it paid off. A quick scramble up confirmed the pillar was still firmly embedded and in good nick. Given that it started it's slide in winter 2005/06, it will be interesting to see how long it will take to reach the bottom

4th Jun 2022  22:22  by jerryhatrick

FB Number: S5766  Condition: Toppled  Score: 9/10

Fourth and final trig of my jubilee jaunt. Parked at the end of the pebbly lane through Gutterby and walked down to the shingle beach to hunt for this most interesting trig. Found trig gleaming in the cliffside in the evening sun. Quick scramble up to inspect. Looks kind of comfortable laid back looking out to sea! Original cap just exposed. Cliff seems stable but being of very soft rock am guessing a big storm could change that. Hopefully it'll be findable for a good while longer yet!

©jerryhatrick
©jerryhatrick

11th May 2021  15:30  by beckroad

Gridref: SD 09200 85300   FB Number: S5766  Condition: Toppled  Score: 7/10

A trig bagger challenge to find and seek within the cliff face. Parked at sd120811 followed coastal national trail north to Annaside. Impossible to see pillar from cliff top. I accessed the beach at Annaside sd086866 and walked south for about 1.5km and there it is comfortably nestled within the landslip. I wonder how long this will remain visible? Spider plug is intact. An easy scramble up to this trig. Not to do on wet days.Tide was going out on my return journey. Beach walk terrain initially difficult, however once passed Gutterby more sand and less pebble beach.

Pillar at Annaside Bank Looking up to the cliff top from the beach.
Pillar at Annaside Bank Looking NW. Spider top remains intact

13th Sep 2020  15:36  by Aye Jimmy

Gridref: SD 09223 85382   FB Number: S5766  Condition: Moved  Score: 7/10

Rest assured TDW that Anna is still there! Spotted from the beach, scrambled up. She looks solidly settled there. Having said that, there has been some settling - compare pics with Greenbell's and Pritch227's taken a year or two ago; and Lonesome_cowboy's beach shot. Can echo Pritch's comments too, regarding its re-discovery by vegibagger and cleaning up of this item by Moacky...

Annaside Banks The TP and view.
Annaside Banks The FB, fortunately facing upwards.
Annaside Banks OS cap, deeply indented letters.
Annaside Banks Seen from the beach.
Annaside Banks The TP.

18th Aug 2020  14:21  by John DCC

Gridref: SD 09253 85388   FB Number: S5766  Condition: Moved  Score: 7/10

12th Jul 2020  15:30  by Thomas David Whitaker

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

Blue sea, blue sky, Isle of Man in full profile some 40 miles away. All I am missing is a pillar, which I expect to find half way down an eroded cliff. I walked the length of Annaside Banks,including the highest point looking down and then back along the beach looking up without spotting it.I assume it has got covered up by further erosion but will look out for further comments with interest.

7th Apr 2019  13:23  by jonglew

Gridref: SD 09225 85378   FB Number: S5766  Condition: Moved  Score: 6/10

Parked at Kiskin Farm, over The Hawes first then on to the coast for the pillar... which due to coastal erosion has slipped down the muddy bank. FB and original centre cap are retained, latter with indented lettering. Front sight hole sealed, not possible to check the others. Easy scramble down the bank, although would expect it to be trickier in wet weather.

Pillar TP0853©jonglew
Spider TP0853©jonglew
Flush Bracket TP0853©jonglew

1st May 2018  12:35  by Heidi

Gridref: SD 09200 85300   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Toppled  Score: 5/10

1st Apr 2018  16:12  by greenbell

FB Number: S5766  Condition: Moved  Score: 6/10

Visit after Whit Fell, one look at the map and I'm already prepared for a trig disaster! Drop to the beach with it's cormorant and there it is embedded on the cliff, suspect it will be ablaze with coltsfoot soon, some compensation.

3rd Dec 2017  15:18  by Laura Rennie

FB Number: S5766  Condition: Moved  Score: 8/10

Such a sad sight seeing it there

3rd Dec 2017  15:18  by Pritch227

FB Number: S5766  Condition: Moved  Score: 10/10

well done to everyone involved in the clean up and finding of this one,the pillar is in remarkable condition considering it's fall from Grace!an easy 10

©Pritch227
©Pritch227
©Pritch227

3rd Dec 2017  15:18  by WuzzerL

FB Number: S5766  Condition: Moved  Score: 7/10

30th Mar 2017  14:28  by paulxtr

FB Number: S5766  Condition: Moved  Score: 7/10

Parked in layby at Whitbeck. Followed the public footpath to the edge of the cliff where the trig once stood. Its current location is clearly visible. Found an easy place to scramble down to the recumbent pillar for a closer look.

Annaside Banks ©paulxtr

14th Feb 2017  00:00  by rupertal

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Moved  Score: 6/10

Still hanging on.

11th Nov 2016  12:35  by lonesome_cowboy_burt

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

Parked at the church and walked via Gutterby and the beach. Easy to see from below, not too difficult scramble up the collapsed cliff. There's a bolt EA BM at the end of the path on to the beach

Annaside Banks View from the beach©lonesome_cowboy_burt
Annaside Banks ©lonesome_cowboy_burt

22nd Oct 2016  13:32  by jamiekeighley

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Moved  Score: 6/10

Parked by level crossing and walked down and along beach. Strangely quiet area. Trig easily found. Scrambled up banking to get to it. Glad to see it in a good condition.

©jamiekeighley

17th Sep 2016  14:54  by coinea

Gridref: SD 09229 85378   FB Number: S5766  Condition: Toppled  Score: 6/10

17th Sep 2016  14:53  by clochandighter

Gridref: SD 09229 85378   FB Number: S5766  Condition: Toppled  Score: 6/10

Revisit for photographs and GPS reading. Parked in layby, NE side of road, Whitbeck, outside church at SD119839. Followed RoW network via Gutterby to clifftop path. Pillar fallen victim to coastal erossion. Its original site has collapsed down the embankment but the pillar is still in one piece despite its considerable fall. Now lodged FB face up half way down the slope it has just been meticulously cleaned up by a fellow trigbagger. Spider retains original OS centre cap with deep indented letters. Flush bracket faces upwards and WSW, 227°. Front and left sight holes plugged, back and right buried. From its present resting place there is a 180° panorama out to sea. The only line of sight for triangulation possibilities being with stations on the Isle of Man.

S5766 - Annaside Banks & GRP
S5766 - Annaside Banks pillar & FB

14th Sep 2016  11:30  by Moacky

FB Number: S5766  Condition: Toppled  Score: 8/10

Trig easily found. Went prepared to clean trig up. Removed debris from upper surface , flush bracket and spider. Washed down and took photos.

Before ©Moacky
After ©Moacky
FB ©Moacky
Spider ©Moacky
From the beach. ©Moacky

8th Jun 2016  09:40  by Dusty

FB Number: S5766  Condition: Moved  Score: 5/10

Pillar
Spider
Flush Bracket

1st Nov 2015  10:22  by painterman61

FB Number: S5766  Condition: Moved  Score: 5/10

first of the day parked at farm walked down track and prow took some finding at first original plug and fb first ever beach trig mist clearing

trig ©painterman61
trig ©painterman61
top ©painterman61
fb ©painterman61

22nd Oct 2015  17:45  by weekender

Gridref: SD 09229 85378   FB Number: S5766  Condition: Moved  Score: 6/10

An interesting visit, even if just for the steep scramble down to the half buried but otherwise intact pillar. The GPS coordinates of the current position corresponds well with that logged by Peregrinus. Height 24m AOD.

Annaside pillar

17th Oct 2015  16:48  by slateloose

Gridref: SD 09200 85300   FB Number: S5766  Condition: Moved  Score: 6/10

Parked near church on main road and walked to Gutterby farm and down track to beach then along beach to below trig point. Trig is about a third of the way down the cliff sitting on a ledge of soil, partially buried .Had to clean off the F.B to take photo's.

19th Jul 2015  16:20  by peregrinus

Gridref: SD 09231 85376   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Moved  Score: 5/10

18m West of former location according to GPS. Just visible from clifftop but easy scramble down (maybe best avoided when wet as cliff could slip again). Revisit, here for the two p30 summits. From North same as last time via the forbidden bridge. Fb covered in soil, didn't bother to uncover it.

17th Apr 2015  17:08  by Downfaller

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Toppled  Score: 0/10

Managed to drive down unmade track to just beyond Gutterby - bit rough in places. Walked down the beach to trig location. Spent about 40 mins trying to locate fallen pillar but unsucssful. Rather walk up mountains than across shingle beaches. Looks like the shape of the coastline is subject to change on daily basis in these parts !!

26th Feb 2015  14:46  by peebs

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

18th Aug 2014  00:00  by caroleengel

Gridref: SD 09232 85378   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Moved  Score: 5/10

Still there but could do with a bit more excavating - soil too hard

13th Aug 2014  17:45  by dugswell2

FB Number: S5766  Condition: Moved  Score: 7/10

Not too difficult to find this toppled trig after Charles Atas Everett's hard work and Chris Ottley's grid reference but took 5 minutes to clean the mud from the flush bracket on this sunny and windy late afternoon. This trig had been reported missing for 6 years.

17th May 2014  19:02  by RichardL

Gridref: SD 09243 85387   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Couldn't find it  Score: 5/10

Having NOT done any homework on this one (unlike others !) I failed to scramble down the right part of the cliffs. From the top, I could see a block on the shore which looked the right size & shape, so made for that, but it turned out to be a nondescript lump of slate. By then, it was time to leave, but presumably the TP and flush bracket are still in the debris somewhere on the falling cliff.

11th Feb 2014  13:23  by stonestreaker

FB Number: S5766  Condition: Toppled  Score: 5/10

Great find down the slope. Did no homework before finding this so I'm giving myself a pat on the back.

view from top- in the 'O' ©stonestreaker
©stonestreaker
©stonestreaker

29th Jun 2013  14:30  by Mickandkim

Gridref: SD 09243 85387   FB Number: S5766  Condition: Toppled  Score: 5/10

Still there and Flush Bracket still pointing up

31st Dec 2012  00:00  by DeniseMc

FB Number: S5766  Condition: Toppled  Score: 5/10

almost buried in mud and grass. 1/4 down cliff but FB upwards. slurry reascent hard!

23rd Jul 2012  16:55  by CJO

Gridref: SD 09228 85381   FB Number: S5766  Condition: Toppled  Score: 5/10

Inspired by vegibagger and party's visit we made the long trek down the coast to visit the remains. The FB was awash with a muddy slurry which took some cleaning away with the tools to hand.

S5766 best to take a brush or rag to aid cleaning
S5766 toppled pillar just visible on grassy patch halfway down bank

6th Jun 2012  16:42  by vegibagger

FB Number: S5766  Condition: Toppled  Score: 5/10

Jamie and I found it!!! Visited the site of this trig without any prior knowledge about not finding it. Now of course I've read the history. Particularly interested in the difference between pics fron Discjirm May 2003 and especially Iainmac's pics of May2005. Pretty lucky that PeregrinusRob still found it precariously standing still, in Aug 2005. We were standing at the highest point of the second rise to the south, after the small cutting into the cliff marked on the map to the north. It had to be pretty well where the trig had stood. Sure enough a careful scan down the clayey rubbly slope and there was the tell tale sign of what could only be the concrete base of the fallen pillar, facing out to sea, but with about 40cm of 6cm bevelled edge visible and about 10cm of one side. It looked pretty easy to scramble down to it, so we did. I estimate that it is about 12 metres or so below the top and so perhaps 22/23 metres above the beach. Although most of it was buried under hardened dry clay and earth I wanted to check if the small amount of side that was facing upwards, was the one that had the flush bracket, as the amount of earth needing to be removed wasn't that great. After all there was a 1 in 4 chance that it did. I asked Jamie to go searching for any rocks with a sharpish edge we could use to gradually bash away at and scrape away the hardened rubble. I started with the nearest stone to hand. Jamie came back with a sharper edged stone which helped a bit but it was still slow and we needed something to spike into the earth to break it up quicker. I remembered I had a Swiss army knife in the rucksack on the grassy top so Jamie went back up and came down with that. Didn't want to blunten the blade of the knives but the fish scaler tool was never going to be used by this vegetarian other than for the ruler down its side so it made an ideal poking and prising tool. This speeded things up no end. Eventually we got wide enough in from the side, and far enough up, from the concrete base to be where the indentation should be. Sure enough I started to find a recessed area. Digging further and scraping away, recess seemed to go down a long way and fear crossed my mind that maybe someone had actually hacked out the flush bracket, despite thinking this to be very unlikely. Anyway, eureka, a little bit more digging and there, in all its glory was the flush bracket S5766. This was definitely the most interesting trig search that we'd done!! For any born 5th of July this is one of your birthday flush bracket series. And for those born just before the famous '66 world cup win....this is your birth pillar!! If only one could've had a permanent web cam on it over its final year to capture it's actual topple. Wonder what date and time of day it was?

Jamie, concrete base, buried trig Jamie underneath the concrete base of the fallen and mainly buried trig, prior to our bit of digging to try and find the flush bracket©vegibagger
Eureka The archaeology has been successful. The beginnings of the flush bracket have been revealed©vegibagger
Exhumation After probably five and a half years buried, the trig flush bracket sees the light of day again.©vegibagger

26th Mar 2012  21:22  by PeteBoggs

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

Parked at Kiskin farm and ignored the daft sign by the bridge then past Annaside to path - no sign of trig

25th May 2009  13:57  by AndyKeen

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

1st Sep 2007  14:31  by chrisbombington

Gridref: SD 09243 85387   FB Number: S5766  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 1/10

Accessed via the footpath just north of Kiskin on to the pebble beach which is more like a rubbish dump flotsam and jetsam ok but traffic cones and gas canisters ! Anyway the variety of rubbish made the walk along to the Trig site somewhat interesting as previously reported there is no sign of the Trigpoint Which is not surprising given the massive amount of erosion taking place, retuned via cliff top and the footpath which The National Park Authority must have invested quite a lot with picket gates and a substantial bridge over the small river Annas

Beach debris !! Rubbish
massive amount of erosion
more erosion
substantial bridge over the small river Annas

24th Jun 2007  15:45  by asbown

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

walked from high hyton along road and over bridge( still marked as private )to the coast, no sign of trig but great views.

view over to the isle of man

11th Jul 2006  13:40  by mickandshane

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

I'm afraid previous predictions have come true. We parked at Kiskin Farm, crossed the bridge - where you are supposed to seek prior permission or wade across the stream (what a load of nonsense) and took the footpath past Annaside to the coastal path. The trig has either fallen off the cliff and is now buried by earth etc (I had a good look around and couldn't see any sign of it) or has been removed - a less likely alternative although one can live in hope. Another one bites the dust!

7th Aug 2005  12:00  by peregrinus

FB Number: S5766  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

vgc, metal cap deep letters, outside arable field on brink of cliff, undermined and maybe leaning slightly: only a matter of time … Nice views.

Montaged by Jon Rouse ©peregrinus

2nd May 2005  12:00  by iainmac

FB Number: S5766  Condition: Good  Score: 9/10

Going, going .... Judging by discjirms photos this one has no chance of surviving even to see next winters gales. Visit it now while you can !

S5766
S5766
S5766
S5766

4th May 2003  12:17  by discjirm

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

This pillar is very near the edge of the cliff; I do not think that it will be long before it is on the beach below. There is a footpath that runs along the top of the cliffs close by; approach with care, however.

Annaside Banks trig point. Annaside Banks trig point.©discjirm
Annaside Banks trig point. Annaside Banks trig point.©discjirm

3rd Jul 1991  15:28  by clochandighter

FB Number: S5766  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

First visit. To record FB number. The pillar was completed 7th September 1949 costing £7.19s.0d. In 1952 this marker was computed for triangulation as tertiary station NY11/T1 in the Workington secondary block. Flush bracket S5766 was levelled for height in 1956. This trig point was last maintained by the OS in November 1976. Spider retained OS centre cap with stamped lettering. Was still standing in July 1991. Has since gone over cliff.

25th Apr 1982  00:00  by RogerTempleman

FB Number: S5766  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

Pillar, with almost no white paint, situated in pasture about 1m from wire fence at top of drop to shore.