Logged Visits:

5th Jul 2025  08:10  by TriggyWiggy74

FB Number: 10845  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Easy road side over a gate

The view

31st Mar 2025  15:30  by Nekyram

FB Number: 10845  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Parked at gate 3. Over gate ,left up track and up into field .

17th Aug 2024  19:15  by RGChandler

FB Number: 10845  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Hopped over the gate, down track to left, then through a gap in the hedge in to the field with the trig.

3rd Aug 2024  12:20  by Trigger monster

FB Number: 10845  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

Heading south west on the A603 a couple of miles from Barton, pulled in to an entrance to University site where there was a metal gate but pedestrian access through gate , not locked, at the side. Knocked at door of house but no reply. Wasn’t sure if the pillar was near this entrance or if there was another entrance to the site further to south west. After double checking map decided the pillar was further to the south west. Was tempted to walk across the open ground from the entrance I was at but then chose to head further to south west to next entrance about 500 metres further on. Nowhere to pull in off main road so pulled over on roadside at minor road a couple of hundred metres beyond the gate. Walked back along the verge. Over gate into site of radio telescope, looking abandoned and derelict. Headed north east around the telescope dish and fought a way through tall nettles onto a ridge path. Needn’t have battled through because after a hundred metres or so spotted pillar in open meadow fifty metres from the ridge of ground. Cap plugged. Unusual high FB number without S prefix. View of meadow. Wonder what the site is now used for. In its day must have been state of the art with telescope dishes moving along a track.

Lord’s Bridge Flush plate
Lord’s Bridge Spider and cap looking east
Lord’s Bridge Looking north
Lord’s Bridge Looking south
Lord’s Bridge Looking west

16th Feb 2024  19:07  by GB4371

FB Number: 10845  Condition: Good  Score: 4/10

Easy bag - won’t get much flatter! Does have a good view of the Mullard Observatory in the background!

20th Feb 2022  13:55  by chloejesstravels

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

18th Dec 2021  08:35  by peregrinus

FB Number: 10845  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Revisit for nearby ex water tank, whose remains I take to be around base of pillar. Access from SW, gate 3, as per pillar logs.

Pillar with assumed water tank remains

9th Oct 2021  16:27  by manonabike

Gridref: TL 38800 53700   FB Number: 10845  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Gate 3 access down ramp between 2 rusted parabola dishes to tarmac road 30m down road is a gap in trees leading to field and pillar.

9th Oct 2021  15:45  by Mickandkim

Gridref: TL 38800 53700   FB Number: 10845  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

Parked at gate No 3 Out with G2021 Group and did not get caught by security

9th Oct 2021  15:44  by coinea

Gridref: TL 38804 53725   FB Number: 10845  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

With G2021 group

10845 Lords Bridge

9th Oct 2021  15:43  by jonglew

FB Number: 10845  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Verge parking on SE side Cambridge Rd by Gate 3 (TL 3861 5364). Access straight forward, past a disused radio telescope. Centre cap missing, replaced with asphalt plug; all sight holes open. Views limited to the large field in which the pillar stands.

Pillar TP4543©jonglew
Spider TP4543©jonglew
Flush Bracket TP4543©jonglew

9th Oct 2021  15:42  by thejackrustles

FB Number: 10845  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

With G2021 group. Verge parking on SE side Cambridge Rd by Gate 3 (TL 3861 5364). Access straight forward, past a disused radio telescope. Centre cap missing, replaced with asphalt plug; all sight holes open. Views limited to the large field in which the pillar stands.

Lords Bridge collage ©thejackrustles

9th Oct 2021  15:42  by wrose

Gridref: TL 38802 53731   FB Number: 10845  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

Part of NPFB Group visit.

10845 Lords Bridge Pillar.

15th Apr 2021  00:00  by dogwalking

Gridref: TL 38800 53700   FB Number: 10845  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

5th Oct 2019  12:39  by blackboot29

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

18th May 2019  14:16  by riverboat

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

Did not climb over the gate into private land by the satellite dishes.

11th Apr 2019  21:40  by WanderingSal

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

23rd Jan 2019  12:25  by slateloose

Gridref: TL 38800 53700   FB Number: 10845  Condition: Good  Score: 8/10

Very unusual location, large derelict satellite dishes on tracks. Took same route as previous log from gate 3. Strange feeling of being observed from afar.

8th Dec 2015  10:00  by timdoggart

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

Climbed over access gate 3 - whole place looks unused and rusting away despite the unfriendly 'keep out' signs - follow down the concrete track beyond the first dishes, then climb the bank to the left and into the field beyond. Only about 200 yards from the road

Trig Trig
Telescope Dishes Dishes near the trig

21st Feb 2015  00:00  by caroleengel

Gridref: TL 38803 53725   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

24th Jun 2014  10:52  by trig-man

Gridref: TL 38803 53729   FB Number: 10845  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

In farmers field

20th Sep 2012  16:37  by Griefmiester

Gridref: TL 38806 53719   FB Number: 10845  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

Parked next to gate ("Gate 3") on A603 to the South West of the main gate, then over the gate (there is a strickly private Cambridge University sign on it) Pillar is located in the field to the left, stubble to day so walking over to it was not a problem - interesting location looks semi deserted? had a tresspassy feel about it - pillar good condition farm land views to the North - Space age views to the South and East.

Pillar & FB
GPS Data

10th Jun 2012  06:45  by MCL

FB Number: 10845  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

Access via the gate as per Asbown below... Just inside the gate hidden in the trees are two huge 10m (approx) radio dishes facing upwards, like a giant salad bowl. Not been used for many years having been decomissioned in 1968. They are part of a large array of these dishes, arranged along a 1-mile track. They could park them anywhere along the track they wanted so as to get different characteristics of the overall array. As for the trig pillar, well this year its in a field of wheat. Easy access along tramlines. Got my legs drenched with the overnight dew.

6th Aug 2011  09:10  by peregrinus

FB Number: 10845  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Revisit for photos. vgc, asphalt plug, arable field (large patch of Bristly Ox-tongue!). Parked on verge and nipped over gate. Alarm was sounding somewhere; a van headed in while I was safely out of sight at the trig.

FB
Top
Trig in Bristly Ox-tongue
Telescopes seen from 11491 Barrington Hill

27th Mar 2008  17:50  by asbown

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

you can park in the entrance to the unused gate 3 and climb over the same gate,easy from there, as everywhere today very wet.

19th Feb 2008  15:31  by arranc

Gridref: TL 38800 53700   FB Number: 10845  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

30th Dec 2007  15:27  by THE CYCLIST

FB Number: 10845  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

29th May 2006  17:53  by Jaz666

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

Had a quick peek through the hedge to confirm the location of this one. I visited the whole area a few years back during a University Open Day, very interesting work.

22nd Apr 2006  16:30  by rad

FB Number: 10845  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

This is well used as shown by the cars round the entry house, the open and shut gates, the magnetic strip card entry mechanism, and all kind of things! Would advise ringing to check, number given on entry mechanism is 01223 262 463.

7th Aug 2005  13:30  by gazooks

Gridref: TL 38804 53723   FB Number: 10845  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

In good order and in a great location. Went through hedge to get to but came back over gate.

Flush bracket
the trigpoint
Thr trig point with Radio dish in the background

27th Jun 2005  15:10  by rhayader_wanderer

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Couldn't find it  Score: 4/10

Great location but all the hedge gaps are full of summer vegetation. Adopted policy of not crossing keep out in pseudo military areas but a winter gap in a hedge may get me to the trig

18th Sep 2004  15:30  by mickandshane

FB Number: 10845  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

We climbed over the gate to the radar station as it seems to be disused up this end. Tarmac plug.

9th Jul 2004  09:30  by elsworth

FB Number: 10845  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

2nd Jun 2004  19:38  by discjirm

Gridref: TL 38795 53727   FB Number: 10845  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

This pillar is in quite a spectacular location; not because it is in a high or scenic place (it sits in the middle of a field), but because it sits very near a large radio telescope dish. Do not access from the road through the observatory; park on the side of the A603, jump over the cess and go up a bank to gain acces to the field.

Lords Bridge trig point. Lords Bridge trig point.©discjirm
Lords Bridge trig point flush bracket. Lords Bridge trig point flush bracket.©discjirm
Lords Bridge trig point spider. Lords Bridge trig point spider.©discjirm
Lords Bridge trig point. Lords Bridge trig point.©discjirm

29th Aug 2003  12:00  by peregrinus

FB Number: _10845  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

vgc; resin plug

28th Sep 1982  00:00  by RogerTempleman

FB Number: 10845  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

Access via Radio Astronomy Observatory grounds to get the FB number. Boring view apart from the telescopy dishes!

3rd Jun 1982  00:00  by RogerTempleman

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Unreachable but visible  Score: 5/10

Pillar in middle of wheat field. Another visit required!