Logged Visits:

7th Oct 2023  11:59  by mralrule

Gridref: SJ 67390 91160   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Remains  Score: 6/10

©mralrule
©mralrule
©mralrule

18th Aug 2023  19:50  by TracyH

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

Found the trig point on a night run, seems only the base and stump remains after reading earlier posts. Still a very interesting location to me on very flat land.

Stump and base remains Remains of trig at the edge of a farmhouse garden, in the tree line
Running and trig bagging Found on a local run

5th Nov 2022  09:32  by Earby Rambler

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

Visited whilst on day out with Painterman61.

Pillar
Bolt

5th Nov 2022  09:32  by painterman61

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

Revisit is still there strangest of trig points, used to fish Blundells lakes close by the lads were all tackling up for the 10 am start to the match.

Trig ©painterman61
Top ©painterman61
Shiny bolt ©painterman61

24th Jun 2022  12:09  by Ian Robinson

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

Still under the conifers by the farm

27th Mar 2022  00:00  by Trigpointerrier

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

1st Jun 2021  19:40  by Wheresthatpenguin

Gridref: SJ 67399 91169   FB Number: S2741  Condition: Moved  Score: 3/10

Parked on Holly Bush Lane. Walked down the lane, before turning right onto Prospect Lane. The pillar used to be on the north side of Prospect Lane, a few hundred yards to the west of Prospect Farm. However, it was dug up (farm vehicles kept hitting it, due to the narrowness of Prospect Lane), and the remains of the pillar can be found at grid reference: SJ 67498 91215 under some conifers on the western boundary of Prospect Farm. A real shame that the pillar was not moved fully intact, as all that remains is the base and block with centre mark. However, given the account provided by @robinhood, the rest of the pillar may be somewhere else on the farm, given that the farmer was considering reinstating the pillar somewhere else out of the way of vehicles.

Remains of Pillar remains: base and block with centre mark
Centre Mark / Block
Original Location Original location was in the foreground of the photo. The remains of the pillar can be seen in the distance in front of the conifers

17th Apr 2021  14:30  by tim747

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Remains  Score: 2/10

18th Mar 2020  16:15  by robinhood

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

Apologies for the length of this log, but I have to put it in its wider context as a record for myself as well as details for other hunters. Interesting times: the start of the acceleration of the coronavirus 'crisis'. I bagged this one on the way to Altincham to meet up with my son. Getting nearer to the site I passed over a weird anachronism, Warburton Toll bridge, 12p to cross, the only local way over the River Mersey for miles around but long queues at rush hour.Take care travelling down Prospect Lane, it's very potholed. I parked my car apparently opposite where the pillar used to be, walked up to Prospect Farm to ask permission to get to it. I spotted the stump, and a stump it is, 50 yards or so away from the track in a line of conifers W of the farm buildings. No-one was in so I returned to the car and noticed a group of workers laying drains in a field. A pile of blackened trees, preserved by the waterlogged soil, was nearby. I was seen too, and ended up having a great chat with Ian, the third generation farm owner; he readily said I could visit the trig. It reinforced the need to always ask for permission, where needed, to access a trig. He had a bemused smile, and explained farm vehicles kept bumping into the trig so they decided to move it. He was concerned he shouldn't have, and was thinking about reinstalling it somewhere. I suggested near my car, but I didn't ask where the pillar was. Keep it simple. We got on to farm matters. The soil looked black and rich, like the bags of compost you get at the garden centre. I asked if it was fertile, he said it was, very much so. Underneath the topsoil was peat, good stuff. Get this. A Goole firm rented a field to grow carrots, but as the supermarket they supplied (it may begin and end with an 's', but hey, they all do it) was screwing prices down so much, the firm was finding it uneconomic and were discontinuing. Ian was thinking about renting it out to local planters for local shops. Ironically the current crop was ruined due to the recent heavy rain. I thanked Ian for his time. The trig itself. Only the stump of a base remains, there would have been no spectacular views from its original position. And on through Warburton. Have a look at the village's old church, originally Saxon, but now a strange mixture of buiding since then. The church is no longer used for services, but a clunky key is currently avaliable from a local resident (details in the porch of Warburton new chuch) to enable you to soak up the medieval wooden interior. Altrincham, like the area, seems wealthy and well-heeled, but this 'plague' is having its effects: closed bars, few people out and about, but strangely every mens and womens hairdressers had customers. As a footnote, the last booklet I flicked through in the old church was about how Warburton was affected by the Black Death. A very interesting afternoon.

©robinhood
©robinhood
Souvenir on route to Rixton trig, a day pass. They didn't have a single trip one ©robinhood

14th Mar 2020  14:43  by John DCC

Gridref: SJ 67402 91168   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Moved  Score: 2/10

https://allthetrigpoints.wordpress.com/2020/03/20/trig-point-5455/

7th Oct 2018  14:01  by slateloose

Gridref: SJ 67300 91100   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Remains  Score: 2/10

Wouldn't normally go to trig in bit, but was in the area. Not convinced that these are remains of trig, more like a bolt then the plumb bob on the inside of trig points.

18th Aug 2018  14:30  by Mickandkim

Gridref: SJ 67399 91169   FB Number: S2741  Condition: Moved  Score: 3/10

Easy find and drove to it

30th Apr 2017  12:55  by paulxtr

FB Number: S2741  Condition: Remains  Score: 3/10

Wonder what happened to the rest of it?

Rixton Moss ©paulxtr

29th Jan 2017  15:13  by vegibagger

FB Number: S2741  Condition: Remains  Score: 5/10

under conifers west of house ©vegibagger

13th Sep 2016  09:53  by asbown

Gridref: SJ 67483 91224   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Remains  Score: 5/10

easy to find, looks nothing like a pillar mind.

8th Nov 2014  15:30  by ProSpec

Gridref: SJ 67425 91173   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Remains  Score: 5/10

I could see the remains of the pillar from the track but there was someone working in the field next to it so I didn't stop. I didn't look to see if there was a separate block in the original position.

30th Aug 2014  00:00  by rupertal

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

25th Apr 2013  20:32  by dal

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

No change. Still to the W of the farm, about 50 yds N of track, in conifers.

12th Mar 2013  00:00  by caroleengel

Gridref: SJ 67493 91215   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Remains  Score: 5/10

16th Jun 2012  17:06  by painterman61

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

Done after fishing the open match at blundells fishery just down the badly pot holed road,remains just past prospect farm at side of some conifers center bolt is on top of large concrete plinth flat landscape.

Base remains ©painterman61
center bolt ©painterman61

17th Jan 2011  11:30  by PeteBoggs

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 1/10

Followed badly rutted private road - Prospect Lane - remains only

9th Jan 2011  11:51  by tigger4242

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 4/10

Material in the conifer hedge

©tigger4242

4th May 2009  12:42  by lonesome_cowboy_burt

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Toppled  Score: 4/10

Nice walk across the moss. The remains are still in the conifers alongside western edge of the farm.

24th Aug 2008  16:50  by BILLY COO

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Toppled  Score: 2/10

What remains of pillar standing upright by farmhouse garden.

RIXTON MOSS ©BILLY COO
RIXTON MOSS BOLT ©BILLY COO

11th Jul 2008  12:00  by peregrinus

Gridref: SJ 67450 91230   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Toppled  Score: 4/10

Well found Ted :-) Substantial concrete foundation, still with its Bolt, stands upright against W hedge of farmhouse garden, N of track and visible from it. Grid ref approx SJ67459123 estimated from map, approx 100m ENE of original location. Another small piece of concrete lying face down next to it also has a similar Bolt. I guess the pillar could still be around - no reply at the house. Corn Bunting singing - or was it the closely related Cabbage Bunting :-)

16th Sep 2006  15:10  by ted

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Gone, but large foundations, including centre mark and stumps of the angle irons, dumped in hedge just to the east. Somewhat flat landscape.

Rixton Moss Centre Mark and stumps of angle irons
Rixton Moss Centre Mark
Rixton Moss Base and foundations
Rixton Moss View of base from approx original location

23rd Aug 2006  16:45  by rhayader_wanderer

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 4/10

Drive all the way from the east appears I was actually on a private road for some of the time according to the sign as I left on the western side oops. Looks a possibly interesting area for birdlife

27th Nov 2004  14:39  by Deego

FB Number: S2741  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 5/10

Not on map and could find no sign of it

24th May 2004  05:30  by Trigger

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

10th May 2004  13:25  by fasgadh

FB Number: S2741  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 2/10

Not reported missing, but on a vast fen there really is nowhere to hide. Drove up to the 10 fig GR and nothing to see in the flatlands. Dark soil given over to vegetable growing. Its definitely a gonner. Not shown on the OS maps either. 3 visits , 3 meanies.

Rixton Moss The site

8th Jan 2004  10:36  by Keith Stevens

Gridref: SJ 67399 91168   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 3/10

Base only, over grown. Definite concrete, where the farmer couln't plough. Next to track, on edge of ploughed field. Public

The base area