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11th Dec 2024  10:00  by RGChandler

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Bagged while passing. Parked on the road and got photos quickly.

25th Oct 2024  10:03  by painterman61

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Easy bag but a nightmare to park quick dash out from the car. The trig is a lot narrower in construction and has no plug on the top .

Trig ©painterman61
Top ©painterman61

23rd Mar 2024  12:00  by iainmac

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11th Dec 2022  11:41  by Dubvine

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28th Aug 2022  19:10  by mattfallen

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11th Jun 2022  19:45  by Wheresthatpenguin

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Parked on Rowley Road and viewed pillar from behind the fence

Pillar

3rd May 2021  12:15  by Mickandkim

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Easy to see

25th May 2020  18:42  by THE CYCLIST

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re-visit. just inside airport boundary fence. Flaking blue-grey paint. non-standard spider

30th Dec 2018  00:00  by dogwalking

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viewed through fence easy to find road side

29th Apr 2018  10:00  by Phil Clayton

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Viewed through airport fence. 1st of 8 today.

21st Apr 2018  13:51  by WuzzerL

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©WuzzerL

21st Apr 2018  13:50  by Pritch227

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unusual pillar,could have done with Charles's ladder bagger man alter ego!

©Pritch227

1st Sep 2017  18:15  by asbown

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only from the outside of the perimeter fence.

1st Sep 2017  18:15  by The reluctant trigger

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28th Jul 2017  00:00  by caroleengel

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As reported below, not a regular OS trig. No plug, sight holes or flush bracket. Visit arranged with Andy Hixon, Coventry Airport. Site visit escort - Phil - many thanks for being so obliging.

2nd Apr 2017  15:42  by Trigger

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TP7814

31st Mar 2017  14:17  by g4wsb

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Fenced off.

©g4wsb
©g4wsb

22nd Dec 2016  16:34  by CJO

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Tall, slim pillar within airfield boundary fence, simple theodolite mounting plate, lacking its centre.

Coventry Airfield

21st Apr 2015  19:24  by Bear and Ragged

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behind fence!

Baginton ©Bear and Ragged
Bagington ©Bear and Ragged
Bagington ©Bear and Ragged

4th Apr 2015  00:00  by CornishCacher

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©CornishCacher

8th Oct 2014  07:26  by Griefmiester

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Parking next door, looks good condition. First log using Android App. Works well.

Pillar

5th Nov 2011  14:10  by dal

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1st Nov 2011  09:35  by arranc

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my last West Midlands trig location.

15th Oct 2011  08:00  by peregrinus

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Vgc, more slender than a Hotine and no centre hole, with spider arms meeting at the centre. 2m inside tall security fence. That spider type also features on the Newcastle University pillar 12327. This airfield-related thread (last but one post in thread) http://www.airfieldinformationexchange.org/community/showthread.php?1886-Ordnance-Survey-Trigpoints./page3 includes the following comment "When I worked at Coventry Airport (Baginton) in the 1970s, the OS installed a trig point on the northern perimeter." No confirmation from OS of this - would seem strange if this is OS built given its design. OS in 2011 could find no record of it, but commented as follows: "the rumour that OS built it may have come from the fact that OS did build pillars for third parties e.g. for MOD, airfields, research establishments as repayment tasks. I know of several existing examples at Herstomceux for instance. These may or may not have become full trigs depending on the accuracy the customer wanted the trigs fixed to and/or if it was useful or relevant to OS at the time. The trig might well have been co-ordinated off the Trig network by OS but never recorded internally as an OS trig. This may well account for this trig, by looking at it doesn’t meet the normal OS ‘standard’ in the looks department and spider on the top."

Spider with no centre hole
Trig looking SW
Trig looking SE
Trig, fence and road

13th Oct 2011  08:24  by THE CYCLIST

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Spotted this on the website, so thought I'd visit. Clearly visible from public road just inside airport security fence. Similar in height to OS pillars, but slimmer with sharp (not chamfered corners) between faces. Arms of spider meet in point with no central hole. No FB.

30th Jun 2011  19:50  by Father Ted

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I found this when cycling past Coventry Airfield. There is a thought that it may be the original Baginton S2365 pillar but that was reported as being destroyed and replaced by a surface block, itself destroyed in March 1952. Added to that this pillar does not appear to have the traditional hole and plug in the top and the shape is not charaturistic of an OS pillar maybe. If it does have a flush bracket then it is on the side I was not able to see.

©Father Ted