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I do like the first picture. Quite magical.
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Fascinating! Great read.
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One minor disappointment can be that trig points aren't necessarily on the highest point of a hill if a slightly different spot gives a better line of sight from elsewhere.
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I'll be up Horsenden Hill next month as part of the Capital Ring, so I'll look out for that one - thanks.
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Pole Hill trig point is a short(ish) walk from Chingfprd Overground and well worth a visit for historical reasons too (but on a day when the trins are running).
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The whole story of the ordnance survey is fascinating and well worth reading.
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Did anyone else think the first photo was of the pillar doing a wee?
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I hadn't thought of that - I saw it as a rainbow that had been out in the sun so long that its colours had bleached out. But I won't be able to get the other idea out of my head now..
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I was a member of the Charles Close Society for a number of years. Interesting but perhaps a bit too intensely focussed, despite my abiding map obsession. I just wasn't obsessed enough, comparatively. Great post DG.
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Grew up near Barn Hill and spent a lot of time when younger sat on (or attempting to sit on) the trig point there.
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Fascinating!
The Selsdon Park and Layhams Farm links both point to the latter. dg writes: Fixed, thanks. |
Should Dagnam Park be in red?
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Not sure how accessible they have to be to be coloured green, but you easily see and can get within a couple of metres of the Chessington one at the end of Vivien Close. See here.
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Dagnam Park and Chessington are both linked from the phrase "clearly visible" in the last paragraph.
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My grandfather, Brigadier Martin Hotine, was in charge of the retriangulation of the UK. He designed the pillars which had to be made at the site. There is a memorial stone to him outside the Ordnance Survey headquarters in Southampton.
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