WARNING: Watch out for rabbit/fox/badger holes on the way to GZ.
When I placed this cache a fox came out of the vegetation 150 yards away. I stood dead still and he came towards me. He got with 25 yards before he spotted me! LOL!
The trig point itself is inside RAF Alconbury but you could get pretty close to the trig point which is right by the fence. Alternatively, with a little online research, you can find contact details to try and request an escorted visit. That won't help you find the cache though as the cache is outside the perimeter of RAF Alconbury.
On 18 April 1936, a group of surveyors gathered around a white concrete pillar in a field in Cold Ashby, Northamptonshire, and began the retriangulation of Great Britain.
Ordnance Survey (OS) is celebrating the 80th anniversary of the triangulation pillar, most often known as a "trig pillar" or "trig point" and a welcome sight to many a walker as they reach the peak of their walk.
There were once about 6,500 trig pillars, built by the early surveyors at OS.
The pillar was devised by Brig Martin Hotine to provide a solid base for the theodolites used by the survey teams and to improve the accuracy of the readings obtained, before that the coordinates could be fuzzy.
Trigtastic caches are a series of caches of all sizes placed at or near Trig Points. Some trig points are on private land and inaccessible or have gone so the cache will be placed as near as possible and hopefully within sight.
If you wish to place a cache and have it listed in this series please contact Marcusmaximi for a number and to have it bookmarked.
To see all Trigtastic Caches please click HERE.
| Official Name: |
Abbots Ripton |
| Cache/TP Status*: |
Visible (with good eyesight!) |
| Location: |
526m due west of GZ |
| Flush Bracket Code: |
10670 |
| Original/New names: |
TL36/T82 TL36T082 |
| Trigpointing Waypoint: |
TP0767 |
| Harold Street Code: |
TP0002 |
| Grid Ref: |
TL2162676027 |
| Height ASL: |
48m |
*Possible status: At TP, Visible, Out of Sight, No Longer Present.