Logged Visits:

31st Dec 2023  13:00  by Wheresthatpenguin

Gridref: TF 13923 71573   FB Number: S98??  Condition: Moved  Score: 9/10

Parked on the road to the north of the pillar. Obtained permission from the owner of the site at the Forest Lodge at TF 14148 71775. Very nice man. From the Lodge, headed north west up a track, before turning south west down another track, where the pillar can be found on the right hand side of that track opposite an enormous stack of hay bales. This was RAF Bardney, which was opened on the 18th January 1943 as the home to No 9 Squadron which flew Lancaster Bombers. The base closed in 1963, but during its final 4 years between 1959-63, it was used as a Thor missile site and that is when this pillar and the Bardney East pillar (TP7843) were constructed.

Pillar
Flush Bracket
Spider
Pillar

9th Nov 2023  14:52  by BasilDowl

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

14th Nov 2022  12:03  by A1Mushroom

FB Number: S98??  Condition: Moved  Score: 6/10

Parked to the North at the site entrance close to Austacre Wood. Stopped at the security hut and asked if we could visit the trig. We were initially told No as it is on Private property. Once the lad had got the map of the airfield out and realised it wasn't on there property (the animal sheds) then he didn't really care and on we went.

18th Sep 2022  14:00  by The Trudges

FB Number: N/A  Condition: Moved  Score: 7/10

Flush Bracket ©The Trudges
Trig
Trig
Spider with missing centre cap ©The Trudges

18th Sep 2022  13:52  by Motor mic

FB Number: N/A  Condition: Moved  Score: 5/10

18th Sep 2022  13:44  by MickSan

FB Number: S98??  Condition: Moved  Score: 7/10

©MickSan
©MickSan
©MickSan

15th Jun 2019  13:05  by Earby Rambler

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

Visited with Brunshaw & P61.

Trig

15th Jun 2019  13:05  by painterman61

FB Number: NONE  Condition: Moved  Score: 5/10

easy bag no plug numbers grinded off fb

Trig ©painterman61
Top ©painterman61
Grindr fb ©painterman61

28th Apr 2019  14:32  by WanderingSal

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

21st Apr 2019  15:53  by G1ANQ

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

After bribing the other half with an Ice-cream at the Wolds Wildlife Park Open Day she agreed to visit this Trig. It is actually very easy to just drive right up to it, so she got to touch her first ever Trig Point. So I rate it 7 out of 10 because of its disabled accessibility. As there are notices all over the place saying, "you are being watched", I didnt hunt round to see the other two sites of now missing, trigs.

Flush Bracket
Trig Point Kathy touches her first even one!
Trig Point

30th Oct 2017  16:10  by PeteBoggs

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

Simple access good to see its still around

©PeteBoggs
©PeteBoggs

12th Aug 2017  11:40  by eon

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

(217) And after looking for Bardney East, it was time to search out Bardney West. My first extant Project Emily pillar, which has been uprooted and is standing upright. Surprising just how big these are once you can see the full height. FB number not readable, and the plug is missing.

Pillar ©eon
FB ©eon
Top ©eon

23rd Jul 2017  09:25  by Dusty

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

Pillar
Spider
Flush Bracket

2nd Jul 2017  09:35  by Mickandkim

Gridref: TF 13923 71573   FB Number: S987?  Condition: Moved  Score: 5/10

Drove to it but there are cameras watching you !!!

3rd Apr 2017  14:39  by robinhood

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

Fifth trig on way back from visiting old uni mate for the weekend. Parked at N entrance to former RAF airfield (141 718) and spotted trig, as marked on this website's map, at the junction of two old runways. At a nearby bungalow and sheds were a couple of blokes (sheds had turkeys in them, bound for Tesco's, I was told) and asked for permission, which was readily given. Trig in surprisingly good condition despite being dug out of the ground and dumped somewhere else. All things considered, I gave it a high score. Huge mounds of baled hay piled everywhere, wondered why.

11th Jan 2017  14:17  by asbown

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

quick walk in from the bend in the road.

28th May 2016  12:40  by ted

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

Pillar including plinth at track junction. FB with numbers missing. Plug not checked.

Bardney West trig
Bardney West trig
Bardney West FB

31st May 2014  09:00  by CJO

Gridref: TF 13921 71562   FB Number: BLANK  Condition: Moved  Score: 5/10

Cap missing. Surprised this has survived. Pigs. FB number has been ground off.

Bardney West

13th Jul 2013  17:45  by Border Peat

Gridref: TF 13923 71573   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Couldn't find it  Score: 0/10

29th Jul 2012  08:27  by THE CYCLIST

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

My first Project Emily pillar. Easy to find and access with the map from the Website.

8th Feb 2012  12:30  by Brisey

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

This was really an attempt to find Bardney East, but I thought I ought to revisit Bardney West too. Bardney West still stands close to the intersection of runways 02/20 and 12/30 at the north end of the site.

TP7541

26th Nov 2011  10:19  by wrose

Gridref: TF 13923 71573   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Toppled  Score: 6/10

A joint visit with Carole. Just as we arrived so did a shooting party which included the land owner. He had no problem with us visiting the pillar but asked that we wait a few minutes whilst grown men shot some of our feathered friends. Once the carnage was over we made our way to the pillar without any problem. Stood upright and its very large foundation. Flush bracket number not deducable and the spider is missing.

S9872 Bardney West Pillar.
S9872 Bardney West Flush Bracket.
S9872 Bardney West Plug.

26th Nov 2011  00:00  by caroleengel

Gridref: TF 13918 71567   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

26th Nov 2011  00:00  by caroleengel

Gridref: TF 13918 71567   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Toppled  Score: 5/10

19th Nov 2010  12:18  by Brisey

Gridref: TF 13923 71573   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Toppled  Score: 7/10

I called first at Moat Farm but got no reply so visited the site. Met the farmer (friendly) on whose land this pillar stands, but his farmhouse is in Bardney, not Moat Farm. The former airfield site is split across two farms it seems. He had no knowledge of the other pillar. I can't add anything more about the FB number. The standard design of pillar top, but the plug is missing. One open sight hole. The GR is for the found position.

TP7541 The FB faces you as you approach.
TP7541 Runway concrete reclamation in progress in the background. I hope the pillar avoids this fate.
The flush bracket
TP7541 top

17th Oct 2009  10:00  by peregrinus

Gridref: TF 13895 71579   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Toppled  Score: 9/10

Project Emily pillar. Uprooted and standing upright approx 25m E of expected location, with spider intact (no cap or plug); FB still present but the numbers (and the letters OS) have been ground off, leaving the letters BM and a vague impression of the FB no (S98xx, most likely S9872, S9870 or S9879). On disused airfield, at runway/taxiway junction, just before bungalow. No sign of its sister pillar Bardney East, which should be at TF 14291 71455. Pasture - no sign of pillar in expected location or lying around. Visited farm: an old farm hand who had been there 15 years and visited daily, was familiar with the W pillar but had never seen the E pillar so I fear it has gone, although it would be worth tracking down the farmer himself (at Moat Ho, NE of the site).

Trig
FB Numbers (and OS) ground off
Top
Trig
Trig
Trig
E trig (vacant site) looking east