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TP1115 - Beamsley Beacon

Grid reference :	SE 09888 52434
Type :	Pillar
Condition :	Slightly damaged
Flush Bracket Number :	S5299
Current use :	NCE Adjustment
Historic use :	Secondary
Waypoint :	TP1115
County :	North Yorkshire
Nearest town :	ILKLEY

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There are 49 photos for this trigpoint (view album).

This trigpoint:
Is ranked joint 1263rd with 18 other trigs (more).
Has a mean score of 6.79/10 (from 62 logged visits)
Was First logged: 18th Mar 1978
Was Last logged: 2nd Jun 2013

Of the 62 logged visits,
12 recorded a location and of these....
All were within 94m
The average error was 28m
1 was exact

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Selection of photos for this Pillar.

By ted

©sykesfamily

©sykesfamily

By barnabyrudge

By barnabyrudge

©Managra

By iainmac

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Logged Visits:

2nd Jun 2013 18:45 by vegibagger

FB Number: Not logged Condition: Slightly damaged Score: 5/10

Delightful early evening walk and fascinating plaque on the pillar.

25th May 2013 14:58 by blackboot29

FB Number: S5299 Condition: Slightly damaged Score: 5/10

Circular walk from A59. very scenic

12th May 2013 12:55 by catman

Gridref: SE 09887 52436 FB Number: S5299 Condition: Slightly damaged Score: 7/10

Been here several times.Good viewpoint despite cloud.

16th Sep 2012 15:10 by ted

FB Number: S5299 Condition: Slightly damaged Score: 6/10

Revisit. Tarmac plug; plaque; pillar top slightly rounded. Drizzly afternoon so views a bit disappointing.

Beamsley Beacon trig

26th Aug 2012 18:30 by Torpid-rat

FB Number: S5299 Condition: Slightly damaged Score: 9/10

Excellent views. Fairly easy access. Trig hosts plaque detailing some local historical information.

27th Mar 2012 18:24 by sykesfamily

FB Number: S5299 Condition: Slightly damaged Score: 6/10

An evening stroll with sunset

Beamsley Beacon Trig Beautiful Sundet©sykesfamily
Beamsley Beacon Flush Bracket ©sykesfamily

27th Dec 2011 09:20 by Lone Walker

FB Number: S5299 Condition: Slightly damaged Score: 8/10

A good track up to the trig point, but a bit of a boggy nightmare beyond it. Once past Round Hill it got even worse. The final walk of 2011 and my ante-penultimate Yorkshire Dales trig point!

18th Dec 2011 13:00 by MickandKim

Gridref: SE 09888 52434 FB Number: S5299 Condition: Slightly damaged Score: 7/10

Parked on road below for easy walk up in sunny conditions Grandkids in tow

20th Nov 2011 14:45 by barnabyrudge

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

Nice straightforward stroll from the road below. Not too steep, not too taxing... just a reasonable uphill ramble. It was an extra bit special today, however, as the road below was shrouded in thick mist yet the summit was in glorious sunshine and blue skies. Looking down, all the surrounding landscape was beneath the cloud with just occasional neighbouring peaks poking above in the distance. Quite surreal and serene!

Ellie at Beamsley Beacon trig Ellie by the trig and the large beacon/cairn at Beamsley Beacon summit
Beamsley Beacon trig The trig point at Beamsley Beacon summit

14th Aug 2011 00:00 by Rupertal

FB Number: Not logged Condition: Slightly damaged Score: 5/10

19th Jul 2011 17:59 by Paulus66

Gridref: SE 09800 52400 FB Number: S5299 Condition: Slightly damaged Score: 8/10

Nice after-work stroll on a broody threatening evening up to the top of 1400 foot Beamsley Beacon. Great 360 degree views. Trig in reasonably good condition with some restored top damage. Concrete plug. Must have been painted in last few years. A National Park bronze plaque affixed to the trig gives some background to the adjacent bronze-age burial mound as well as the trig point itself.

4th Jun 2011 16:40 by fell-finder

Gridref: SE 09800 52400 FB Number: S5299 Condition: Slightly damaged Score: 6/10

Trig has been painted white, and has a large plaque attached to it explaning about the Beacon, and it's massive cairn on the summit. Hiked up from Ilkley, went on to scale neighbouring Round Hill and back into Ilkley. Shame it was low cloud though, as I understand the view are wonderful. Ah well next time! To see a pictoral route of this trek, tap fellfinder into Google.

Me at the trig Point on Beamley Beacon
©fell-finder

30th May 2011 15:11 by jamiekeighley

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

Been up many times. One of my favourite hills.

29th Apr 2011 14:00 by Nicky Busby

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

16th Apr 2011 11:11 by ramblingbadgers

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

A very enjoyab;e walk from Bolton Abbey through Storiths and Hazelwood before returning along the River Wharfe.

3rd Apr 2011 15:19 by johnjennison

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

On Blubberhouse 25 route

2nd Apr 2011 18:37 by sykesfamily

FB Number: S5299 Condition: Slightly damaged Score: 6/10

Lovely evening.

Beamsley Beacon Trig ©sykesfamily
Beamsley Beacon Flush Bracket ©sykesfamily

19th Mar 2011 12:47 by 1.1

FB Number: S5299 Condition: Good Score: 9/10

fINE VIEWS

14th Mar 2011 16:04 by slateloose

FB Number: S5299 Condition: Slightly damaged Score: 5/10

8th Feb 2011 16:29 by painterman61

FB Number: S5299 Condition: Slightly damaged Score: 9/10

This was a good steep rocky ridge walk to top,large ancient cairn next to trig. Best allround views of day from this one.Trig top is damaged tarmac plug Large Plaque from NT affixed giving history of top.

The trig ©painterman61
The trig ©painterman61
The trig ©painterman61
The trig ©painterman61
fb ©painterman61

6th Jan 2011 15:54 by Aye Jimmy

Gridref: SE 09887 52438 FB Number: S5299 Condition: Slightly damaged Score: 5/10

Has acquired a metal plaque, courtesy Yorkshire Dales NPA. A permanent version of Managra's earlier note.

Beamsley Beacon New addition.
Beamsley Beacon The plaque

6th Jan 2011 15:00 by redDragon

FB Number: S5299 Condition: Slightly damaged Score: 6/10

3 of 4. I first came up here on a very foggy day in november 2008. It wasnt quite as grim today, but the view was limited. Trig is very white, but top is considerably damaged, and theres a large plaque about the nearby burial mounds

25th Jul 2010 14:30 by Rachel-C

FB Number: S5299 Condition: Slightly damaged Score: 5/10

Weather very overcast today. 12 miler from Ben Rhydding to Ilkley via Denton, Lippersley Pike, Round Hill, Beamsley & Ling Park.

12th May 2010 15:00 by PeteBoggs

FB Number: Not logged Condition: Slightly damaged Score: 7/10

Signposted from road.This is a seriously white trig now

©PeteBoggs
©PeteBoggs

15th Apr 2010 10:15 by Mr T. P. Bagger

FB Number: S5299 Condition: Slightly damaged Score: 8/10

Tasked by the YDNPA to paint the trig point prior to a plaque being affixed to it at some date in the future. The top edges of the pillar have been damaged such that the top is rounded rather than square.

The repainted trig point ©Mr T. P. Bagger

27th Mar 2010 15:55 by splash

FB Number: S5299 Condition: Slightly damaged Score: 7/10

A lovely lofty place. Very windy on top and along the ridge.

28th Dec 2009 10:35 by wanderer

FB Number: S5299 Condition: Slightly damaged Score: 7/10

9th Oct 2009 09:19 by bonatti

Gridref: SE 09886 52436 FB Number: S5299 Condition: Slightly damaged Score: 7/10

Cool day, GPS on the day.

The Pillar ©bonatti

3rd Oct 2009 16:42 by swampysean

FB Number: S5299 Condition: Slightly damaged Score: 8/10

3rd Oct 2009 16:42 by craftinessa

FB Number: S5299 Condition: Slightly damaged Score: 8/10

Very windy at the top. Fantastic views.

30th Aug 2009 11:00 by BILLY COO

FB Number: S5299 Condition: Slightly damaged Score: 7/10

BEAMSLEY BEACON FLUSH BRACKET ©BILLY COO
BEAMSLEY BEACON TRIGPOINT ©BILLY COO

29th Aug 2009 14:30 by Sven

FB Number: S5299 Condition: Good Score: 8/10

Visit marred by torrential shower of rain in an otherwise beautiful afternoon.

20th Aug 2009 07:37 by kingofgeography

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

great peak for some stunning views

22nd Jun 2009 14:05 by Managra

FB Number: S5299 Condition: Slightly damaged Score: 7/10

Slightly damaged atop a cairn on top of two Bronze Age burial mounds. It had a notice taped to it warning us not to damage the mounds any further. Lovely views. Tarmac plug. We were mobbed by a lapwing on the way there and back, probably protecting her nest.

©Managra
©Managra
©Managra

20th Jun 2009 12:22 by Keith Stevens

FB Number: S5299 Condition: Slightly damaged Score: 7/10

Up from the lane and track to the north. A local told me the cairn wasn’t there when they erected the pillar in 1949, so I worked out that, on average, one person has added one stone every other day for 60 years to build it.

Beamsley Beacon pillar – looking NNW

5th Jan 2009 13:30 by Stuart49

FB Number: S5299 Condition: Slightly damaged Score: 7/10

Light snow, bright sunshine - my first Trigpointing summit and the first summit for my eight week old grandson, Matthew!

15th Dec 2008 12:06 by countrymatters

FB Number: S5299 Condition: Slightly damaged Score: 8/10

Excellent viewpoint high above Wharfedale. Geocache close by.

12th Nov 2008 19:41 by melch

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

17th Aug 2008 14:12 by fat bloke

FB Number: Not logged Condition: Slightly damaged Score: 5/10

Tigged in passing

4th Aug 2008 15:55 by wrose

Gridref: SE 09884 52433 FB Number: S5299 Condition: Slightly damaged Score: 8/10

Easily accessible. I walked up from the car park near Howber Hill Farm and followed the well trod path up to the top. Magnificent view point up Wharfedale. Damage to top with some restoration. Photographs taken on a return visit on a glorious November day. [12.11.08]

S5299 Beamsley Beacon Pillar with model on a glorious November day
S5299 Beamsley Beacon Flush bracket.
S5299 Beamsley Beacon Plug.

23rd Jul 2008 21:02 by G6WTM

Gridref: SE 09888 52438 FB Number: S5299 Condition: Slightly damaged Score: 5/10

An evening stroll with 16th Harrogate cubs for a family BBQ at The Old Pike Cairn, logged the trig on the way back down to the car. A beautiful sunset was observed.

22nd Jul 2008 15:45 by claymoreking

FB Number: Not logged Condition: Slightly damaged Score: 5/10

29th Sep 2007 00:00 by Bramley

FB Number: Not logged Condition: Slightly damaged Score: 7/10

22nd May 2007 14:53 by Theo D Lite

FB Number: S5299 Condition: Slightly damaged Score: 8/10

Not as hard to get up as I thought. Quite popular. Headed north from here to North Nab

4th Feb 2007 10:15 by Leeds Tyke

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

Glorious sunny day with the mist lingering in the valleys below.

17th Sep 2006 13:22 by John Riley

FB Number: S5299 Condition: Slightly damaged Score: 7/10

I was fortunate to be here on a beautiful sunny day, what a lovely place. The trig looks a bit sad though, damaged at the top and its not the highest thing around, its having to take second place to a big cairn.

Beamsley Beacon Approach from the SW.
Beamsley Beacon Looking North West.
Beamsley Beacon Flush bracket.
Beamsley Beacon Showing the damage to the top.
Beamsley Beacon Looking South.

2nd Apr 2006 21:37 by caroleengel

Gridref: SE 09890 52430 FB Number: Not logged Condition: Slightly damaged Score: 5/10

Further visit 27/7/2013, SE 09890 52435

6th Mar 2006 12:13 by peterd666

FB Number: S5299 Condition: Not Logged Score: 5/10

©peterd666

18th Feb 2006 14:25 by sykesfamily

FB Number: S5299 Condition: Slightly damaged Score: 7/10

Beautiful day, great view down Wharfedale

12th Feb 2006 10:30 by itschopper

FB Number: S5299 Condition: Slightly damaged Score: 7/10

The views are supposed to be good but not today. Low cloud.

17th Oct 2005 16:00 by MAC.HAWK

FB Number: S5299 Condition: Slightly damaged Score: 8/10

Latest of several visits (first in Dec 2002).A couple of miles north of Addingham. Fantastic views on a clear day but inhospitable if the weather's against you and I seem to just get the extremes, today was awful with wind, mist and low cloud swirling and no view worth mentioning (hence the photo's aren't up to much). Top of the trig is a little damaged. No Cars, On Foot!!

Beamsley Beacon
Beamsley Beacon A slightly different view than iainmac's !!

13th Feb 2005 14:00 by yorkstan

Gridref: SE 09887 52431 FB Number: S5299 Condition: Slightly damaged Score: 8/10

Blowing a gale up here, but great views. Up doing a nearby cache

19th Dec 2004 15:47 by Rita Platt

FB Number: Not logged Condition: Slightly damaged Score: 5/10

27th May 2004 12:00 by iainmac

FB Number: S5299 Condition: Slightly damaged Score: 7/10

Top is cracking up.

S5299
S5299
S5299
S5299

13th Mar 2004 10:00 by ted

FB Number: S5299 Condition: Good Score: 8/10

A popular, often windy, viewpoint.

10th Feb 2004 20:32 by stonestreaker

FB Number: S5299 Condition: Good Score: 8/10

lovely hill on a summer night

4th Oct 2003 12:00 by peregrinus

FB Number: S5299 Condition: Slightly damaged Score: 5/10

resin plug; old repair to top damaged but pillar seems sound

5th Jan 2003 12:00 by SUE-C

FB Number: S5299 Condition: Slightly damaged Score: 8/10

22nd Jun 1997 00:00 by mickandshane

FB Number: S5299 Condition: Good Score: 6/10

Somebody had tried to turn the trig into a cairn and we had to remove quite a lot of loose stones to read the FB. Tarmac plug.

5th Feb 1995 10:55 by manonabike

Gridref: SE 09800 52400 FB Number: S5299 Condition: Not Logged Score: 5/10

10th Aug 1992 12:30 by Phil Clayton

FB Number: S5299 Condition: Good Score: 5/10

Ran up from Addingham while staying at in-laws. Those were the days !

18th Mar 1978 11:30 by arranc

Gridref: SE 09900 52400 FB Number: Not logged Condition: Good Score: 7/10

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