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6th Oct 2022  09:40  by dugswell2

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No sign of OS bolt.

8th Mar 2022  13:31  by Hartryggers

Gridref: SX 64600 43800   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 5/10

From the main CP across the causeway to the summit behind the Hotel. Not sure which is the summit.. and ruined building or the concrete base with a OS square

30th Mar 2019  15:38  by jonglew

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GR indicates the small square roofless building - no Bolt, Flagstaff or Lightning Conductor seen. ***4 Sep 2022 update. The OS Sketch shows the Bolt was on the roof of the porch, shown to the left side in my first photo. Unfortunately I don't remember if it retained its roof and none of the photographs posted here show it, so possible thwe Bolt is extant after all. The covered reservoir 30m away is a red herring and has no triggy connection.

Roofless Building - Chapel Remains TP10002©jonglew
Chapel Remains. Covered Resr several 10s of metres east TP10002©jonglew

25th Sep 2018  14:58  by pkbathrooms

Gridref: SX 64635 43859   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 7/10

Beautiful place to visit. Photos taken of concrete slab and of building with no roof

19th Jun 2016  12:23  by CJO

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Couldn't find it  Score: 5/10

GPS points to the ruined stone chapel in the centre of which, on the floor, is a possible flagstaff base slot. The bolt in the other photos is on a concrete slab of a "water tank", whose GR (unless the GPS was really bad today), some 30m to the east. Raining far too hard to hang around and hunt for this inside the chapel or on its walls.

Burgh Island Chapel possible flagpole slot inside ruined building on floor.
Burgh Island Chapel on concrete slab GR SX6466343862

25th Oct 2015  12:15  by Cipollini

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I'll have to take everyone else's word for it that this is the TP. Concrete square with circle and triangle shapes on floor of old chapel. Could be anything really. Lovely sunny October day - but beach and island packed as a result. Pint at the Pilchard then paddle back to the mainland as the tide was coming in very quickly. (Photo t/f)

14th Apr 2014  11:45  by peregrinus

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According to info board, chapel is long gone, ruins are the Huer's building (the Huer used to direct the fishing boats). Dusty's triangle is on concrete base a few metres to the east. They seem to be pipe ends, not bolts or any other OS marker I've seen. No GPS this weekend so can't say whether at expected location. Popular spot with busy beach on a sunny Spring Monday, £ 1.30 for an hour parking, could be difficult in summer. Tidal island.

10th Jul 2013  13:00  by asbown

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1st Jul 2013  14:41  by Bourne

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Liked the walk across the beach and up to the top, great views today

25th May 2011  10:45  by Dusty

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SX76 T149 Bolt. Found Square Concrete Slab with circle & triangular shape in middle of roofless chapel. In each corner of the triangle lies a bolt/rivet. Another lies in the dead centre. I have never seen anything quite like this but guess it is the triangulation point. A Flagstaff & Lightning Conductor are also given as SX76 T149 but no sign of these on site.

Bolt
Mrs Dusty & Chapel

1st Jul 2009  13:55  by tom

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The walls of a small square building stand on the summit of Burgh Island off the South Devon Coast to the west of Kingsbridge. The trig station consisted of a bolt, flagstaff and lightening conductor. The site was reached from Challaborough Bay to the north by means of the coast path, the tidal footpath across the beach to the island and the footpaths on the island itself. The building has no roof apart from over the doorway. I reckoned the bolt should be near the doorway. However a quick glance on the roof did not reveal it. There was no sign of a lightening conductor. In the floor in the centre of the chapel there were holes in the concrete which I thought may have been the site of the flagstaff. The summit of the island has a fabulous view of the coast to the north and south. Bigbury-on-Sea and Challaborough Bay are on the mainland to the east. Crossing to the island involved wading through knee high sea water on the beach causeway. The Pilchard is an interesting old pub overlooking the beach from the island. The beach was full of holiday makers. The Art Deco Burgh Island Hotel is a Grade II listed building. Burgh Island formerly had on its summit the chapel of Saint Michael-de-la-Burghe. By 1888 only the foundations of the chapel remained, upon which a small “pleasure-house” had been erected. It was used as a look-out during the Second World War.