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TP1881 - Calton Hill
Logged Visits:
just like penshaw monument near Washington with a replica Parthenon. great view to north and east to cockenzie power station chimneys and west to rail bridge.
Climbed up Calton Hill to collect this Trig Point and admire the views across the City.
Another easily accessible city trigpoint that we had never been up. Busy place just after sunset on a Saturday afternoon, but cracking views all the same.
busy
Yet another revisit.
There was snow down to 200 metres on the Fife hills but that didn't seem to deter the crowds from making it up here. Four days of walking around Edinburgh and its environs were now rapidly drawing to a conclusion for me as my train was about to depart in less than an hour. I had a good scan around the now familiar intersected stations to the north and then moved on to log just one more, Nelsons Monument.
Bagged this late afternoon in the rain. Fantastic views!
Revisit. Walked to and from here from home.
Fantastic sunny day. Great views for little effort.
Still here. Horrid and wet today.
Whilst on a business meeting. Good all round views, with Author's Seat just visible
Had visited this pillar before, Easter 1991 but wasn't sure of the exact date and well worth another look anyway. Warm and sunny on Calton Hill today, despite being cool down in the city. Rebecca suggested the pillar must have been built 3006 years ago...
Even though it's in the middle of a city, it's a great trig. Quick trip up the hill before visiting the National Musuem of Scotland
A short stroll up from Waverley station after returning from North Berwick. Great views & not as busy as i expected it to be on such a pleasant afternoon.
In Edinburgh overnight on business, so an early morning stroll from my hotel. Just getting light; very windy; absolutely no one else around; great views of the lights down to the Forth. Good condition although one sight hole open and some erosion round base.
Revisit whilst killing time before Philip Glass at the Playhouse. Lovely pre-sunset skies with rain clouds causing all sorts of atmospheric effects. Tornado flyover with some sort of fireworks thing too....no change in condition to previous trig log.
Top has been concreted in. Wonerful views on a clear evening. Just managed to see the Forth Railway bridge - such an iconic feature.
Second visit. Beautiful day, with clear views over the Forth and Fife.
Brilliant view for such little effort.
Indian fireworks celebrations around trig had to call back day after to get full bag Nice spot with great views You can drive to within 50 feet
Dad's 70th birthday. Twinned with Craigentiiny Golf course in the morning. Picnic lunch at the spot where Roger and Sarah got married...
In surprisingly good condition considering its location. Visited with friend Mike to use up a bit of time before setting off from Leith on a super cruise around Iceland.
eight logs today, all done in one long walk around the city
hazy sunset
A wonderful location for a trig point. Very accessible and on one of Edinburgh's many welcome green areas. Much of interest in the monuments around and even quite a few birds singing in the city. Great views of Arthur's Seat too.
Wonderful views over Edinburgh. A great location. Slightly worried about the rehearsals for the pagan festival that were going on, whilst I was visiting.
Went to this trig after watching Scotland v England at Rugby
Very good condition pillar despite being in the middle of a tourist trap. Some very mild graffiti. FB faces south-ish with north-ish hole open only. The top hole is plugged. Excellent views on a crisp autumn morning.
Found on a bright clear October day with fantastic views
Found whilst exploring Edinburgh
Visit this one on our way to Arthurs Seat.
Great viewpoint for town and an easy walk up. Lots of repairs ongoing though so the area is not as pleasant as it might be
Lovely views of Edinburgh and the Firth of Forth, but i prefer my trigs to be located off the beaten track - it was a bit too crowded with people for my liking. Tarmac plug.
Found in conjunction with The Athens of the North geocache
Nice day with good view over Leith docklands
Great Views, you can drive right up to this one
Cracking views of Edinburgh up here. Spotted the Forth Railway Bridge as well. Very Roman feeling to the setting up here. Originally found as Maxiboo22 but re-logging to get all trigs under 1 account.
Great views, very busy with tourists. Access was from "behind".
Great views from up here.
Daisy's second Trig
Great views from up here, trig in good nick too
Pretty good view over Edinburgh & the Forth estuary. Lots of paths up to the summit. As mentioned its adjacent the National & Nelson monuments and the Observatorys. Nice place to visit when the suns out, surprisingly no benches in the area! Second visit on 23/03/2010 in slightly better weather conditions. Hill full of foreign (i.e. non-uk) tourists enjoying the monuments and pillars but ignoring the most important one of all!
Fine night-time views over Edinburgh. No problem finding it in the dark.
Crisp, beautiful morning, wonderful clear views. Revisited 15/12/07 while installing additional Hogmanay mobile phone coverage.
Concrete plug, open sight N, FB S. My tourist guide book mentions the TPs neighbours - National monument, Nelson's monument and Edinburgh observatory, but not the TP. I wonder what foreign visitors make of it? do they know what it is? Good view to the N and can make out the ray to Arthurs Seat. Overcast sky making distance views difficult, but can make out the Forth Bridge. There is the remains of a large bonfire to N of TP.
Without doubt best view of Edinburgh.
Midlothian. Excellent views of the city and surroundings. Tarmac plug.
Visiting Edinburgh on the Grand Princess. From Hawaii celebrating our, 808ladybug and my, honeymoon. Decided to go on a caching tour of the city instead of taking an expensive shore excursion. Thanx for bringing us up here views were great.
Superb views over the Firth
Thought we were going to have to walk up the hill - shock. But no, you can drive!! Great panoramic views. A very dull overcast evening after a miserable day, but the monuments up here looked great in the mist. We had just dropped Bec off for the MoonWalk. Me, Mum, Ros.
My first trig point. Nice day, cracking views.
Been up here many times for New Year and Beltane but never bagged the trig. Excellent views north although you can't see many trigs to the south except Arthurs Seat as this isn't on the highest part of the hill. People practicing for Beltane in the background.
On a day visit to Edinburgh decided to visit the hill top when the rain that had been falling in stair rods all morning finally eased off. The view on a good day must be fabulous. Today however there was little to see through the all pervasive gloom, hence only a score of 7
top notch view over most of edinburgh and well beyond the ochils. good return for very little effort in ascent!
A pleasant trip up from town and a surprise (for us)contrasting view of the bay
Easy walk up from hotel we were staying in on bottom road
Wonderful views!!
Love this city - walked up from Howe Street.
Bit busy on top.Good views over Edinburgh
Did this one at the same time as the nearby cache. Great views from here of the city.
Plenty of other architectural distractions around the summit. Took an hour out to bag this one with son-in-law whilst the ladies shopped. Great views over John Lewis'.
Happy Birthday, 63 today!!! The trig pillar, not me, I'm much younger. S3006 was completed on 4th February 1943 for the sum of £6.2s.3d. Intended as a tertiary, but like five other Edinburgh trigs was promoted to a Secondary station. Incidentally Calton Hill was a primary station in the old Principal Triangulation of Great Britain and Ireland 1783 - 1853. Wish I had got up here a bit earlier in the day, the trig was overshadowed by the Observatory. GRP 4/02/2006.
A great view across the Firth with easy access. Pillar looks id good condition but the mount has been filled in.
I was up here caching and noticed there was a trigpoint up here so I thought I'd bag it. It's in very good condition considering the "traffic".
Great view, clear day. Plug filled in but clips are clear. Fringe Festival on at the moment so lots of shows going on up here: pipers, clowns even a guy fire breathing
vgc, mortar plug, classic view of Princess St & Castle
Visited here whilst doing nearby cache.Perfect blue skies and great views over Edinburgh and towards Fife.
Another from my pre-trigbagging days, so no details recorded.
Getting quite eroded around the base of the pillar but otherwise in fair nick. Good visibilty today and not too many punters around. Came to find the nearby geocache but forgot the GPS. Doughnut.
Great views.
Sits at 105m above sea level. You get a grand view of Edinburgh and the Forth from here.
Another 30**, and plenty of tourists braving the cold wind. Its a northerly so clarity was amazing, could make out Ben Vane, Dumbartonshire, beyond Loch Lomond to the west. Fresh snow on the Ochils and a good selection of Fife bumps. Arthurs Seat blocked almost all to the south. Quick detour walking home from an interview. (sucessful, BTW. This is now my 'home trig')
Found this trig while running around like a headless chicken looking for a microcache.
A very special trig point - the first of my year-long trip around the coast, and the penultimate one today before ending at Edinburgh Castle.
Another great viewpoint in EDinburgh
Wasn't expecting to find a Trig point up here, but it's one more for the collection. Nice views of Edinburgh from an angle we haven't seen before.
The trig pillar on Edinburgh"s Calton Hill is probably a good contender for winning the prize as the UK"s most visited trig pillar, not so much by hill walkers but by tourists. I made a point of visiting this pillar on its 60th birthday. This 100m summit is just over five minutes walk from the East End of Edinburgh"s world famous Princes Street. There are numerous monuments and other visitor attractions on Calton Hill. The pillar was built on 4th February 1943 and is still in very good condition despite the crowds, bonfires, festivals and other reputed goings on up there. Rear sighting hole open (no pun intended), others plugged. The spider is plugged with cement. The polished font flush bracket faces south. 5th nearest to home. S3006 originally recorded in 1983, many intermediate visits. 27/12/2004: visited with Rob Woodall. GRP.
The first trig point of many on my coastal walk along Britain, I reached the pillar in a slightly inebriated state, having drunk a bottle of champagne at the castle drawbridge with my girlfriend. A literal high on which to start a year-long walk.
Short walk before heading to the Cafe Royal, our way to Murrayfield for the RL Cup Final.
Great viewpoint a few minutes walk from the shopping hordes.
S3006 originally recorded in May 1983 when I Started calling in on the Edinburgh pillars to find out their FB numbers. A whole new mystery subject which was to baffle me for nearly two decades.
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Flush Bracket
The trigpoint at dusk
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Calton Hill trig in the evening
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end of the day
Trigpoint, Calton Hill
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The Trig
Calton Hill Pillar and Flush Bracket.
Calton Hill
Sunshine on Leith
The trig
Daisy
Trigpoint Daisy
Observatory in background
Calton Hill on a particularly nice day
Me and Mum. Ros kindly took the photo
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View from the top
Calton Hill, Edinburgh
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Calton Hill Plate
Calton Hill North view
Calton Hill South view
View towards the bridges
War Memorial
Team Clova jnrs at the trig
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Pillar
Flush Bracket
Standing at the pillar
Calton Hill trig point.
Calton Hill trig point.
Calton Hill on a clear day
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Calton Hill trig point.
The view from Calton Hill.
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