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6th Apr 2025  16:12  by CJO

Gridref: TL 40053 07664   FB Number: S4465  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

From road bend through brambles and fly tipping, turn right up grass field, then cut through hedge after 100m. Long grass field leads uphill to gate and pillar is on NW side of massive bramble thicket. Visible from north

Pillar

25th Aug 2024  10:39  by TriggyWiggy74

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Couldn't find it  Score: 5/10

Will return! Apparently Ray Winston lives nearby. Also area where Michael Barrymore’s infamous pool party ended tragically.

24th Dec 2022  08:29  by Trigger monster

FB Number: S4465  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

Tricky finding a parking spot, pulled in at what looked like derelict glasshouses about half a mile west of Roydon Hamlet. OS map shows a footpath heading south at the bend in the road. It has been blocked up with a big pile of spoil and unmarked, possibly to prevent fly tipping as about fifty metres south there was a lot of rubbish lying in the ditch and hedge. About this point turned to head west, through hedge and along field boundary to south of tree line. Underneath power lines. Where vegetation on north of field thinned, cut through to field to north. Hill visible to north west across open grassy field, exposed but not directly overlooked. Into trees at top of hill, looked around, then out the other side to west and then walked anti-clockwise around a clump of trees and bushes. Was about to check on here for help when pillar spotted on west side of clump of trees. Partly overgrown with brambles. A bit of tidying up. Spider and cap in place. Views to west and north but obscured by nearby trees.

Clay Hill Flush plate
Clay Hill On discovery , west side of bushes
Clay Hill Spider and cap in place, looking west
Clay Hill Looking south after tidying up
Clay Hill West side

27th Mar 2022  21:25  by WanderingSal

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

3rd Oct 2021  13:01  by MarkyG

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 4/10

11th Oct 2019  14:43  by blackboot29

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

29th Aug 2017  11:02  by slateloose

Gridref: TL 40000 07600   FB Number: S4465  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Parked in Bane Down, Lower Nazeing (Post code EN9 2NU). Then walking along a system of old and new footpaths between the large glasshouse heading north towards the trig point. The trig is hidden on the west side of a small clump of shrub and brambles but is just visible.

28th Oct 2016  10:16  by thejackrustles

FB Number: S4465  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Went to the greenhouses first to find the right of way path, but the owner objected. He told us another way up, which turned out to be better and closer to the trig. So we parked at the bus graveyard to the north of the trig and went straight up the hill behind an old digger and through some trees to the trig. Going through the gap to the right would have saved us the bushwhack through the trees at the top.

Clay Hill Selfie ©thejackrustles
Clay Hill collage

28th Oct 2016  10:15  by monkeydestructor

FB Number: S4465  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Went to the greenhouses first to find the right of way path, but the owner objected. He told us another way up, which turned out to be better and closer to the trig. So we parked at the bus graveyard to the north of the trig and went straight up the hill behind an old digger and through some trees to the trig. Going through the gap to the right would have saved us the bushwhack through the trees at the top.

YSM270 Clay Hill ©monkeydestructor

1st Sep 2016  18:10  by Father Ted

FB Number: S4465  Condition: Good  Score: 4/10

Well, what a struggle this one turned out to be. I entered from the west in the same place others have done but got told by a man that there was no footpath and I wasn't allowed. I must have been in a belligerent mood which is unusual for me as I'm normally so compliant. In the end I just kept walking past the glasshouse even after being told there were dogs loose. I was soon out the other end and into the field. This was strewn with lots of low lying bramble bushes that cut my ankles to shreds. Once into the next filed the going got easier and I skirted around and found the trig no problem. I'd lost my nerve by now and didn't want to go back the way I came just in case there were dogs out by now. Instead I tried to pick up the footpath heading east and then north onto Hamlet Hill. I found a few footbridges with footpath markets but they were well overgrown but it proved I was on the right path. The area up by the road however was completely overgrown and again was very difficult to escape from. Once on the road the walk back to the car was none too pleasant as it was busy and no footpath.

25th Jul 2016  11:13  by gerryu2

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

Parked at the nursery and followed road between greenhouses and caravans. Then went into left field to top right, through gate and uphill then through into larger worked field and through gate and into trig field. Very overgrown trig. Passed by farmer in tractor but I just gave him a friendly wave and kept walking. Cheers.

12th Jun 2016  00:00  by explorer_olway

FB Number: S4465  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Found as YOSM270. Parked by Valley Salads and walked through side gate opposite and through the greenhouses to the back and then cut through to the TP which was engulfed with prickly bushes.

14th Apr 2016  11:31  by orlando rat

Gridref: TL 40052 07667   FB Number: S4465  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

Good views across the green houses

Clay Hill

24th Feb 2015  00:00  by caroleengel

Gridref: TL 40053 07671   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Access easy from FP thru' greenhouses to E. No fences to climb

21st Aug 2014  19:04  by THE CYCLIST

FB Number: S4465  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Walked through grounds of Lowershot Nursery on concrete road bordered by glasshouse on right and mobile homes on left. No one about understood sufficient English to answer my request for permission, but didn't seem minded to stop me! Stepped between homes left into field, and followed hedge to right. Gate at top right into overgrown abandoned field and on up hill. Gate left and another gate on left inot correct field. Pillar on right on edge of island copse facing East.

10th Jul 2013  17:56  by Griefmiester

Gridref: TL 40054 07669   FB Number: S4465  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 6/10

I parked to West in the car park outside Valley Grown Salads then crossed the road and looked for the foot path, then looked again, after a while I found it, although it appears to me there are no markings! - head up to the greenhouses and there a small personnel gate to the right of the main big security gates, this does not appear to have a lock on it, so I assumed it to be ok to go through, then walk along between the huge greenhouses it is not until you reach the end of the nursery that you see a footpath sign (perhaps the locals don’t like it being used?) from there it is a case of "getting lost" and going diagonally across to the hill to your left - the pillar is in good/slightly damaged condition with a small lump out of one corner, it is located in the field to North of the footpath and in the top East corner - views of the nursery and the gypsy camp next to it :) a bit of a trespassy one, but it is quiet so should be ok.

Pillar & FB
GPS Data

4th Sep 2011  19:00  by a1nnie

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

Found in the evening and startled some deer who dashed out of the bushes behind the trig pillar. D/T 1.5/1.5. Co-ords N51 45.013 E000 01.647

Clay Hill Trig Point
Clay Hill trig point

15th Apr 2011  21:20  by mel-ray

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

Logged visit and photo on geocaching.com as YSM270

8th Sep 2010  11:25  by Arnand

FB Number: S4465  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

Parked opposite greenhouses in valley grown salads carpark before following so called footpath between the greenhouse & warehouse. Negotiated the brick rubble at the end before going up the grassy hill to the gap in the hedge. Open fence post then led me to the copse of trees where the GPS was showing where the trig was. Believing that the trig was inside the copse I ploughed head first through the brambles only to find that its not visible from the inside. After coming out the other side I had that Doh! moment when I saw it next to me at the edge of the copse, perfectly visible if i had bothered to walk around. That will teach me not to read the logs. Trig has a small chunk taken out of one corner but otherwise intact with FB and original cap. Now I had to go back into the copse to find my GPS that I had somehow managed to drop without noticing. Ah well i will certainly remember my 100th trig

Overgrown undergrowth

7th Jun 2008  17:26  by Pharisee

Gridref: TL 40052 07672   FB Number: S4465  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 6/10

Definitely the hardest of the three Tyrolean Maid and I visited today. According to the OS map, there’s a public right of way running east/west some 250 yards south of the trig point but it isn’t signposted. Access is through the nursery, between the huge greenhouses. There was nobody about this afternoon so we weren’t challenged but this may not always be the case. Once past the greenhouses there is no visible path what-so-ever and your way is barred by a rubbish tip and a couple of low(ish) wire fences. Having overcome those, the way up to the trigpoint is relatively easy but the fields are obviously being grown for hay and the grass is high enough to make up-hill walking a slow process. The trigpoint is relatively clear of undergrowth, complete and in reasonably good condition. I’ll record it as ‘slightly damaged’ though as one top corner has a large chip missing. The view west, back over the greenhouses is the best.

The trigpoint ©Pharisee
The top, showing the chipped corner ©Pharisee
The view west ©Pharisee
Geli and me ©Pharisee

13th May 2006  18:38  by Dodders

FB Number: S4465  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

Pillar almost completely covered in brambles. Top and cap only visible. Trig appears to be in good condition although the pillar's front top edge and one corner a has broken away a bit.

©Dodders
©Dodders

10th Jan 2004  12:00  by peregrinus

FB Number: S4465  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

vgc, metal cap, raised small letters, W side of summit copse overlooking acres of glass - Access:path from W (LR166), follow field edge N, then tk to trig