Logged Visits:

28th Sep 2023  07:11  by peregrinus

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

Good effort BigJ! Inaccessible for me; Flagstaff Good. From E, parked on verge N of gate, up thru beechwood and bracken, descended NE then a track led E then open beechwood

21st Mar 2023  14:28  by BigNick

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

on the way to Bergen

19th Apr 2021  15:05  by BigJ

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

Visited this tower a few times and was determined to achieve a view of the disc. The door to the tower is always securely padlocked and the tower itself is festooned with mobile phone antennae. I had to resort to aerial technology. After numerous flightpath and interference checks, I took the plunge. Because of the flag pole I couldn't get too close. Large rivet installed on top of asphalt disc.

©BigJ
Disc to right of flagstaff ©BigJ
Close up of the disc. ©BigJ

20th Mar 2021  13:00  by COVID Trig Point Challenge

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

Didn't realise this was a trig until I was logging another one, must be stuck on the tower somewhere?

1st Jan 2021  13:23  by thejackrustles

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

Been here before for a geocache but didn't take any pictures, that was in Summer and the bracken was very high. Much easier today but parking is now an issue as it's clear the owners of eyebrow cottage (Toll House) don't want anyone parking here as they have put large logs against the side of the road to prevent you. York Tower is a 3-storey octagonal folly erected in 1827 to commemorate Prince Frederick, the Duke of York; and the Forteath Mausoleum – built in 1850 as the burial place of 7 members of the Forteath family of the nearby house of Newton. More fancifully, York Tower is said to have been erected on the site where Macbeth met the three witches

York Tower selfie ©thejackrustles
York Tower

21st Aug 2020  11:13  by joeythecat

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Unreachable but visible  Score: 5/10

Visible from the road but trying to walk up from NJ16666300, was defeated by the bracken. One for the winter.

17th Oct 2019  17:55  by Border Peat

Gridref: NJ 16317 62954   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

17th Aug 2018  13:53  by jonglew

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

Category B listed 3-stage octagonal folly, 1827. OS lists Disc and Flagstaff, Disc presuably on the roof (no access), where the Flagstaff resides. Hill is also a tump, appropriately named York Tower.

The Tower TP10256©jonglew
The locked door TP10256©jonglew

12th Feb 2012  11:00  by jimbothenav

Gridref: NJ 16322 62945   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

A steep climb up the hill to the tower. Especially tricky during the Summer months when the bracken can be chest high! Surrounding trees at the top limit the view but an interesting structure nonetheless. NJ 16322 62935