Logged Visits:

28th Feb 2024  13:35  by Robert Phillips

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

30th Nov 2023  11:10  by sky high boys

FB Number: S4259  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 4/10

Had a nearby delivery, nipped up here during my 15min break.

27th Mar 2023  11:57  by A1Mushroom

FB Number: S4259  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

Parked in a pull in by a field gate to the North. Went through an empty field so not to disturb the sheep and new lambs. Fields are interconnected by gates anyway. Wet in places around the water troughs.

29th Jul 2017  20:10  by fergie

Gridref: NS 49100 33900   FB Number: S4259  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 6/10

Got there via barbed wire fences and thorn hedges Farmer came up for a nosey to see what i was up to, but on being told, he was very pleasant and interested

Hill House
Hill House S4259

7th Apr 2017  00:00  by caroleengel

Gridref: NS 49070 33942   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

30th May 2015  13:45  by Mickandkim

Gridref: NS 49067 33946   FB Number: S4259  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

No one about so drove up lane past donkeys for short walk up field only three fences to get over

10th Jul 2014  11:30  by Johnoneill1916

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 7/10

Walked in from Galston turning left before the roads depot the right at Drumdroch Farm then went up through the cut silage field up to trig. Good views over to Arrran, North Hill, Baidland right round to Corsehill :-)

13th Feb 2012  11:18  by coinea

Gridref: NS 49068 33941   FB Number: S4259  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 6/10

Accessed from Hillhouse farm road (Drumdroch road closed). Handy parking at farm road end. Met farmer on track, he said to look out for fallen tree as a marker for trig location.

30th Jun 2011  18:25  by Border Peat

Gridref: NS 49068 33938   FB Number: S4259  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 7/10

Walked 2 field edges of hay to small wood S4259©Border Peat
Pleased there was a fence between us Bull with back up crew©Border Peat

10th Apr 2011  16:30  by Quadbarrel

Gridref: NS 49066 33945   FB Number: S4259  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 6/10

Good run through the fields to get to this trig which is somewhat oddly situated in a small enclosure surrounded by barbed wire. Great views on a lovely April day.

Flush Bracket
Circular Plate
Master QB at the Trig ©Quadbarrel
The Trig
Trig View 1
Trig View 2

28th Aug 2010  13:59  by descarte1

Gridref: NS 49063 33944   FB Number: S4259  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 6/10

Good condition pillar with the exception of the top screed having a sizeable chunk knocked off it exposing the spider arms. Metalwork still in good shape, however. Cap present with sunken lettering. FB faces south-ish with S/E-ish sightholes still open. Surprisingly decent views all round, although I must echo clochandighter's rant about the barbed wire. Utter overkill. Easy wander up the mapped farm track and across a pasture field.

11th Jan 2009  12:00  by iainmac

FB Number: S4259  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 2/10

Revisited (bad record keeping !). I thought the place looked vaguely familiar.

S4259
S4259
S4259

24th Mar 2007  19:13  by peregrinus

FB Number: S4259  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

top screed damaged. Metal cap, shallow letters. NW corner of small copse, S side of fence. Pasture.

24th May 2005  14:00  by agentmancuso

FB Number: S4259  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

23rd May 2004  12:00  by iainmac

FB Number: S4259  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

Top is going.

S4259
S4259
S4259
S4259
S4259

3rd Jun 2003  16:02  by clochandighter

FB Number: S4259  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 4/10

Visited to record FB number. HISTORY: Pillar completed 10th October 1947 costing £10.2s.4d. Computed as tertiary triangulation station NS44/T37 in 1950. Levelled for height in 1962. Last maintained by the OS in October 1976. SITE VISIT: The well protected pillar is still in good condition. The spider retains it original stamped font OS plug and the flush bracket faces south. In the unlikely event that I ever come to power, the use of barbed wire will be outlawed. This pillar stands at the western end of a wedge shaped grazing field where the tip of the isosceles triangle has been fenced off with copious amounts of barbed wire for no obvious reason. Proved difficult to photograph because of cramped conditions due to barbed wire and hedges. Most memorable part of this expedition was the bus getting water bombed as it passed through a rough housing scheme in nearby Galston. I am sure nice people live in Galston too. Photographed 3/06/1997, GRP.

S4259 - Hill House pillar & FB