Commemorative plaques

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The trig pillar at Cold Ashby bears the following plaque:

Ordnance Survey
Cold Ashby
The first observations for the 
retriangulation of Great Britain
were made at this trigonometrical
station by Sergeant G.F.Mullinger, 
Royal Engineers on 18th April 1936.
There are 11,678 such stations
and the last observations were
made at Thorny Gale in Westmore-
land on 4th June 1962.

On 18th Apr 2011, the 75th anniversary of this event was marked by a gathering of trig-baggers and recorded by the BBC. A photo of Sergeant Mullinger appears in History of the Retriangulation of Great Britain [1].

Similarly, the trig pillar at Thorny Gale bears the following plaque:

Ordnance Survey
Thorny Gale
The last observations for the
retriangulation of Great Britain
were made at this trigonometrical
station by Mr E.A.P.Joyce on the
4th June 1962.    
There are 11,678 such stations
and the first observations were
made at Cold Ashby in Northamp-
tonshire on 18th April 1936.

The trig at Miltonhead bears the following plaque:

Here stood
MILTONHEAD
the birthplace of
Major-General
William Roy
4th May 1726 - 30th June 1790
from whose military map of
Scotland made in 1747-1755
grew the Ordnance Survey
of Great Britain

References

  1. The History of the Retriangulation of Great Britain