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TP6576 - Trelleck
Logged Visits:
Logged while Geocaching
Easy to find trig in good condition.
Located on a small mound just off the path to the picnic area on this HuMP giving good views to the east towards the Brecons. Easy 250m walk from a good car park, which is closed until 31 Jan 2013 for 'harvesting' - they want to restrict access to the hill for the duration. We parked in front of the chain across the car park entrance (room for a couple of cars). The sign didn't specify what was being harvested and there was no activity when we visited. Pillar is in good condition, plug missing. There is what looks like a badger's head on one side of the pillar, can be seen in my 3rd photo, with another unidentified design above it. Seen the badger's head once before on the Wentwood pillar - does anyone have information about them?
Followed track from car park. Turn right before picnic benches. On tumulus? Totally surrounded by trees.
Located in a wood near Beacon Hill. View obscured by trees. Trig on it's own mound.
Found whilst doing some nearby caches.
Beacon hill, did a few caches nearby and dropped in to bag this trig
Visited on a circular walk from Trelleck village on a dank winter’s day. Trelleck is a significant trig point. Rachel Hewitt, in her excellent account of the first triangulation of Britain, Map of a Nation, notes that ‘Trelleck Beacon was a gateway for the Ordnance Survey’s advance deep into Cymru’. She records that ‘William Mudge and Thomas Colby completed their observations at Trelleck Beacon towards the middle of the surveying season of 1804’. As others have noted, the current pillar sits on a small mound. I suspect that the mound is a relic of the original 1804 triangulation station on the site. The ‘dog and grenade’ stencilled graffiti (see photo) appears on a number of trig points locally. Some irreverent trig spotter’s tag. The cap is missing.
This is our first Trigpointing find, we have passed it so many times before I think we are allowed to log it! Catbrook Trigpointers
It looks like it used to be painted white at one stage. There is a surprisingly good car park to the west on the minor road. From there it is a short walk up to the summit of this HuMP.
Not easy to find in the woodland ! Lovely views across to sugar loaf & pen y fan short way from trig
The pillar stands on a small mound in woodland at the summit of Beacon Hill to the west of the Wye Valley and to the south of Monmouth. The trig was visited on a circular walk, mostly through pleasant woodland, from Cleddon. The setting of the waterfall at Cleddon Shoots is particularly impressive. From some recently cleared heathland closer to the pillar there is a good view east over the Forest of Dean to the Cotswold Edge. There is a good view west from the entrance to the nearby Beacon View car park. The pillar lacks a cap or plug and has FB S/3346; it is surrounded by woodland which prevents a view from the site itself. The woods were full of the sounds of song birds singing, woodpeckers pecking and the occasional off-road motorcycle. Cleddon Shoots Woodland is an SSSI; Bertrand Russell was born at Cleddon Hall and the whole area is within the Wye Valley AONB.
Parked at Whitestone,Bargain Wood nr LLandogo. Wye Valley Walk with stunning viewpoints east over the Wye to Cuckoo Wood Duchess Ride v/pt. Then west up Beacon Hill & managed to find correct path to trig at first attempt! Nice pillar,nice spot.Then walked down to Trellech to visit St Anne's Well & Harold's Stones. Fantastic weather, hence a 7
Hidden away in the trees, but good views from other parts of this woodland.
foolishly went straight up hill from roadside through gorse, bracken and bramble. then found nice track to top and trig and returned that way instead.
Visited while doing Nutnabber's Home cache. Not easy to find in the trees.
Enjoyed a nice walk through the forest. Great views to the east, but not from the trig.
Another Trig on a regular dog walkin route for us.
Easy log with good parking.No views as in trees,would be good from parking but foggy.
Blotted my navigational copybook here by going to the wrong bit of forest altogether, although it was called Trelleck Common. This wrong forest was full of rally cars screeching around the dirt tracks. Finally relocated at Beacon Hill, an altogether more pleasant and quiet spot.
OK condition; no plug; limited view; BSM format - undistinguished woodland summit
Plug missing.
In the forest. Visited in error, because I thought it was a Marilyn! Outtopped by Wentwood. Still a hill missing from Clem's list. Ran by in 1979, when orienteering here - in those days I cycled to events. This was a 45 mile ride followed by my run! Then a mere 20miler afterwards (cheated used a train part way) |
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Pillar
Design on the Pillar
Flush Bracket
The trigpoint.
General view of the pillar
View of the pillar, showing the small mound it sits on
The flush bracket
pillar
flush bracket
spider
Mrs Dusty & trigpoint
Flush Bracket
S3346
S3346
Bob at Trelleck
Booboo on trig
