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13th Jan 2025  12:23  by thejackrustles

FB Number: S1884  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

How muddy!!! Once off the PROW the field and field edges were very muddy and your shoes just got heavier and heavier!

Southend Hill selfie ©thejackrustles
Southend Hill collage ©thejackrustles

15th Sep 2024  11:30  by GrowlerOutdoor

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

Found with Piggy

Pig on Trig ©GrowlerOutdoor

25th Aug 2024  13:20  by painterman61

FB Number: S1884  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

Parked in estate followed paths to fields luckily fields ploughed, good views trig all intact.

Trig ©painterman61
Top ©painterman61
Fb ©painterman61

10th Feb 2024  12:40  by Wheresthatpenguin

Gridref: SP 91945 16599   FB Number: S1884  Condition: Good  Score: 8/10

Pillar
Flush Bracket
Spider
Pillar

23rd Sep 2023  08:54  by Trigger monster

FB Number: S1884  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

For some strange reason I couldn’t get my bearings passing through the village of Cheddington. Stopped a couple of times to check the map. Eventually made it to a car park by the recreation ground to the east of the hill. The pillar was visible on top. Crossed the road and through the playing field, hoping for a gap in the hedge. Too dense to get through. Back to road and north to Leeches Way, second turning to west. As far as gate into ploughed field. Went back to car park and rode around to same spot. Around field boundary south east then south west and uphill. Last couple of hundred metres was across a ploughed field, trudged over damp mud, been through worse. At summit good views all around. Ivinghoe Beacon clearly visible to east. Spider and cap in place. Made hard work of getting here.

Southend Hill Flush plate
Southend Hill East towards Ivinghoe Beacon
Southend Hill South west
Southend Hill North east towards Cheddington showing spider and cap
Southend Hill North
Southend Hill Approached from north east
Southend Hill Open sight hole

24th Feb 2023  17:27  by DeniseMc

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

Roadside parking in Cheddington Village to N by School. Followed RoW along muddy field boundaries, then field boundary and tractor tracks within sprouting grass to obvious trig at domed HP. Pink skies and extensive views. En route home from Luton Airport.

24th Feb 2023  17:25  by RichardM

Gridref: SP 91947 16598   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Field path SW from Cheddington until able to follow field boundaries into summit field, then along tractor tramlines through young shoots of crop to trig pillar. Nice views, setting sun.

27th Nov 2022  13:34  by DaveD

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

1/5 with Debi.

30th Jul 2022  18:15  by adventure_stricken

FB Number: S1884  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

This was a mission - farmer was harvesting the fields. Waited for 2 x tractors to collect bails and then legged it up the hill from the wooded section.

28th Jan 2020  00:00  by Bramley

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

26th Feb 2019  10:25  by dugswell2

FB Number: S1884   Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

Sunny on top of wheat field.

25th Sep 2018  11:15  by mjwjones

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

seen from the train! clearly silhouetted on the skyline.

25th Aug 2018  11:50  by Aye Jimmy

Gridref: SP 91947 16607   FB Number: S1884  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Fields all dry, ploughed and raked over...

Southend Hill In a desert of soil...
Southend Hill The trig. All four sight holes open.
Southend Hill The FB.
Southend Hill OS cap with lightly indented letters.

3rd Jun 2017  06:40  by G1ANQ

FB Number: S1884  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

I miss this out last year as the farmer was working on the land. But today the Trig was sitting in a big empty field, not even any crops in it. So straight forward walk up to it. Good views all around.

Flush Bracket
Trig Point
Trig Point

29th Feb 2016  14:15  by tigger4242

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

13th Jan 2016  15:12  by jonglew

Gridref: SP 91948 16603   FB Number: S1884  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

From minor road to E, parking for couple of cars on SW side road. Initially followed field boundary running parallel to RoW, but on NW side of stream; at first field boundary turned NW and headed directly over arable field to trig. Pillar found in good condition with original cap in place, lightly indented lettering; all sight holes open. good 360deg panorama.

Pillar TP6082©jonglew
Spider TP6082©jonglew
Flush Bracket TP6082©jonglew

15th Aug 2015  00:00  by caroleengel

Gridref: SP 91947 16607   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

3rd Oct 2014  15:07  by slateloose

Gridref: SP 91900 16500   FB Number: S1884  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

Took footpath from Cheddington then followed the first field boundary south east where a new sign has been placed saying Private no footpath.Then walked north east to find gap in hedge in line with trig. Both fields are now ploughed and sown .

21st Aug 2014  00:00  by ngthack

FB Number: S1884  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Horrendous fight through field of dead beans to reach the trig.

8th Jul 2014  17:36  by runblue

Gridref: SP 91946 16595   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 1/10

Quick detour while out running.

©runblue

14th Sep 2012  07:53  by THE CYCLIST

FB Number: S1884  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Readily visible from surrounding roads. Accesses from footapth to SE. Field boundaries then short way across sprouting new crop. Wide vista on this warm sunny day.

14th Apr 2011  13:05  by blackboot29

FB Number: S1884  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

Walked up side of path and then across field to trig. Panoramic views.

2nd Jan 2011  11:45  by Father Ted

FB Number: S1884  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 6/10

Parked in Cheddington to the north then along field edges and up the hill to trig. Was it not near here that the Great Train Robbery took place?

15th Jun 2010  16:57  by Griefmiester

FB Number: S1884  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

I Parked at the footpath to the north then along the field edge Pillar located in adjacent field, and i accessible via tractor rutts - bit of grafitti - but condition is good. farmland views

16th May 2010  18:00  by MCL

FB Number: S1884  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 7/10

Well in 2003 I took a look at this one and promised myself to return and its only taken 7 years! I am marking this down as Slightly Damaged in that there is quite a lot of etched graffiti scratched into the sides of this pillar. It is known by the local youths as a place to go (I know this because my current companion IS one of the local youths...) and several have left notice of their undying love for each other and exactly when they are supposed to have done it and who they are supposed to have done it with. Apparently they call it Nipple Hill because of it's profile with the trig pillar on top. So, I have to say that we cannot honestly rate this as a perfect pillar any more. Functionally it is all there, but cosmetically scarred. In addition there appears to be a quantity of dried manure on the top. Says it all, really...

5th Apr 2010  11:50  by Arnand

FB Number: S1884  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

Parked on Hillside and short walk to Trig. Amazing views all around. The first of four trigs I visited in little more than 2 hours

Trig Cap
View towards Ivinghoe Beacon

26th Mar 2010  16:40  by bluebeard

FB Number: S1884  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

23rd Jan 2007  16:10  by rhayader_wanderer

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

as mickandshane

23rd Sep 2006  12:20  by Glaslyn

Gridref: SP 91940 16590   FB Number: S1884  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Pleasant walk in ,on fightpath to Luton ? airport so busy overhead.Good views.Walked in from footpath to the W.

©Glaslyn
©Glaslyn

30th Jul 2006  14:00  by Trigger

FB Number: S1884  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

12th Feb 2006  13:00  by mickandshane

FB Number: S1884  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

We parked on Hillrise, a street of modernish houses at Cheddington which is adjacent to the footpath. Access to the footpath is via a gap in the chainlink fence. We followed the footpath and then fieldlines and then across a very claggy field of rootcrops to the trig. Pleasant views. Plug with indented lettering.

11th Feb 2006  08:00  by DanTrig

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

Walked up to bag trig before longer walk that day.

7th May 2005  19:30  by scafell3210

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Unreachable but visible  Score: 3/10

You can clearly see this one from the train on the West Coast main line (and at the same time out of the window on the other side of the carriage is Ivinghoe Beacon (Beacon Hill) but not so obviously a trig ! ) Begs the question in which spot can you see most trigs at the same time ? and how many ?

27th Feb 2004  12:00  by peregrinus

FB Number: S1884  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

vgc, metal cap shallow letters, summut of arable field, wide view