Logged Visits:

19th Apr 2024  15:07  by Walking with Gerald

FB Number: 6231  Condition: Moved  Score: 5/10

19th Apr 2024  15:05  by Maryjdavies

FB Number: S6231  Condition: Not Logged  Score: 5/10

18th Nov 2023  00:00  by Ronaldo333

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

Rye S6231 from GR: SE 94945 80783. Permission from new farmhouse

10th Dec 2022  21:06  by WanderingSal

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

5th Apr 2022  18:40  by BasilDowl

FB Number: S6231  Condition: Moved  Score: 8/10

I've given this one a higher rating based on the welcoming landowner - the pillar itself is a bit of a pig truth be told. Reading previous logs and scouting things on Google Earth, you're nowhere near any ROWs you can nip off, so I drove down the farm track fully prepared to go knocking for permission. Luckily, I didn't have to. As I neared the bend in the track, a couple doing a spot of metal detecting in the trig field came over - and the lady turned out to be the farmer's wife. We had a pleasant, brief chat and she was more than happy to grant permission to park up and nip down the field edge. She was a bit bemused by the whole situation, having had several recent callers (not T:UK loggers though it would seem) and even asked me if I was "in the club"...! She was lovely, and my thanks go to her and the farmer for being so accommodating - she did however ask me to pass on that anyone wishing to visit should please ask permission if at all possible by just calling at the house; it won't be a problem. The pillar sits only a short way down from the bend in the track, just in the scrubby field edge. It is a bit battered, having been relocated from the middle of the field and not re-sunk in the ground, so the footings are all visible and it has got a bit of a lean to it. It still has all its metalwork present, however.

The pillar (1)
The top of the pillar
The flush bracket
Approximate original location
The pillar (2)

30th Nov 2021  14:19  by A1Mushroom

FB Number: S6231  Condition: Moved  Score: 5/10

Asked at the farm house, no problem.

24th Nov 2019  09:56  by eon

Gridref: SE 94659 80735   FB Number: S6231  Condition: Moved  Score: 5/10

(1600) Drove up to and called in at Rye Topping Farm. The lady of the house was happy to let my visit the pillar, and knew about the hobby - "We've had 3 callers recently who wanted to see it." Pillar removed from original field location around 2005 - marked as 'destroyed' by the OS in October of 2007. The pillar is now to be found at field edge close to a small wood. Foundations exposed, and leaning slightly, but in good condition nonetheless. Also viewed the original location. Pillar history: Built on the 17th of April 1951, at a cost of £14 13s 9d. Last maintained by the OS in June of 1984.

Pillar. ©eon
FB S6231 ©eon
Top. ©eon
Original location ©eon

7th Nov 2019  10:57  by CURRYSCRIM

Gridref: SE 94688 80727   FB Number: S6231  Condition: Moved  Score: 5/10

Asked at the farm and permission readily given. The pillar is by a small wood and has been uprooted from its original location. Two consecutive moved pillars and a long while since the last photograph.

16th Sep 2017  11:07  by slateloose

Gridref: SE 94700 80800   FB Number: S6231  Condition: Moved  Score: 5/10

Walked along drive to farm and ask permission to visit trig point. Spoke to lady at farm and was not a problem, a young lads gave us direction.

15th Sep 2016  16:03  by pkbathrooms

Gridref: SE 94768 80818   FB Number: S6231  Condition: Moved  Score: 7/10

parked at end of track - no one around to ask. quick dash along field/wood to the pillar and photo taken.

30th Apr 2016  07:58  by painterman61

FB Number: S6231  Condition: Moved  Score: 5/10

Drove up track to bend quick dash didn't knock at farm as it was early all metal intact next to woods.

rye ©painterman61
trig ©painterman61
top ©painterman61
fb ©painterman61

3rd Oct 2015  10:05  by jamiekeighley

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

Parked at end of farm track, through gateway as track bends left. Hiding along edge of woods. Not the best of spots.

©jamiekeighley

10th Apr 2015  17:52  by vegibagger

FB Number: S6231  Condition: Moved  Score: 5/10

a return visit because I was an ignorant pillock last time by wandering into the field centre without having looked at notes that would've told me it was at the side of the field. good to return and photograph it.

trig ©vegibagger
fb ©vegibagger
top ©vegibagger

17th Mar 2015  06:05  by PeteBoggs

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

Still standing

©PeteBoggs

31st Jan 2015  15:13  by CJO

Gridref: SE 94653 80734   FB Number: S6231  Condition: Moved  Score: 5/10

all intact. Moved but still upright at edge of wood near cattle trough

Rye

12th Sep 2014  18:00  by vegibagger

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

Aaargh another failure. I'd wandered into middle of harvested field stubble and was going to report back that it'd gone. I did pick up a fine firm smallish giant puffball that had just sprouted after harvest. What a pain that my phone battery died half an hour before and I'd not been able to read notes again and hadn't transferred any on to my map. I now recall reading something about this one moving. I had a little look along woodland edge anyway but not dilligently, which I would've done if I'd realised it was still there.

5th Apr 2014  10:38  by The RockKnocker

Gridref: SE 94651 80744   FB Number: S6231  Condition: Moved  Score: 3/10

This one has been moved to my logged grid reference and is at the right of the wood. As i visited it the farmer came to see what i was up to be he was fine about my visit.

The Trig ! Me at the trig

16th Mar 2014  13:20  by Mickandkim

Gridref: SE 94768 80818   FB Number: S6231  Condition: Moved  Score: 5/10

Up lane to farm and on edge of woods on right facing woods

2nd Jul 2013  16:13  by clochandighter

Gridref: SE 94652 80728   FB Number: S6231  Condition: Moved  Score: 5/10

HISTORY: Pillar completed 17th April 1951 costing £21.11s.9d. Levelled for height in 1952. computed as tertiary triangulation station SE97/T15 in 1954. Last maintained by the OS in June 1984. OS archive comments "Pillar slightly tilted". SITE VISIT: Pillar now relocated to southern edge of field near SW corner at SE946807. Approached from east. Parked north of farm entrance on opposite (east) verge of Brompton Ings Road beside ungated field entrance at SE949808. Followed farm track to rightangle bend and along north side of woods to trig. Hidden in high nettles (seasonal). Moved as previously described, pillar on foundation with slight lean but otherwise in good condition. Spider retains original OS centre cap with deep indented letters. Flush bracket faces northwest, ~313°. Vented through SE sight hole. Open outlook from present location is limited to a 45° span from NW to north.

S6231 - Rye pillar & GRP

7th Mar 2012  00:00  by caroleengel

Gridref: SE 94654 80729   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Toppled  Score: 5/10

7th Jan 2012  09:50  by ted

FB Number: S6231  Condition: Moved  Score: 5/10

Revisit after Wilf's report. Permission given to visit. Through gateway at corner of farm track. Pillar is upright just outside N edge of wood. Plug, FB and foundations all intact. Bright and breezy morning.

Rye trig
Rye trig
Rye FB
Rye top

12th Jun 2011  11:20  by ocean soul

FB Number: S6231  Condition: Possibly missing  Score: 1/10

Pillar not found in field ...

3rd Mar 2011  14:10  by THE CYCLIST

FB Number: S6231  Condition: Moved  Score: 5/10

THIS PILLAR HAS NOW BEEN UPROOTED AND DEPOSITED AT THE EDGE OF THE FIELD COMPLETE WITH THE FOUNDATION. FOLLOW THE FARM ROAD TO THE BEND, ENTER FIELD ON RIGHT BY THE GATEWAY AND CONTINUE ALONG WOOD/FIELD BOUNDARY. NO MAJOR DIFFICULTY.

6th Sep 2009  16:00  by yorkshirenige

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Possibly missing  Score: 0/10

Scanned the field from the end of the farm drive and the road with binoculars, but no sign of a Trig.

26th Aug 2009  09:44  by John Riley

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Possibly missing  Score: 3/10

The field is now ploughed and there is no sign of a trig.

Rye View of the now ploughed field.

13th Oct 2007  10:00  by ted

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Possibly missing  Score: 0/10

Didn't venture into the field but its newly planted and so nothing to obstruct the view. Even if toppled, the trig should have been visible but there was no sign of it, the hump it was relocated to, or the original field edge. I checked from the E end of the farm drive, from the roadside and from the track on the N edge of the present boundary - just a big open field. So it appears to have been either destroyed or moved again at some point since the previous visit 2 years ago 8-( Trig symbol still shown on current OS 1:50000 and 1:25000. Geograph has a photo of the trig dated 4 July 2006 so that narrows down the date somewhat.

Rye site

2nd Oct 2005  12:00  by peregrinus

FB Number: S6231  Condition: Toppled  Score: 5/10

vgc, metal cap deep letters. No GPS, but seemed to me to be c.100m further N than mapped, say SE94808090; leaning. Decent view

Montaged by Jon Rouse ©peregrinus

26th Sep 2005  09:50  by Glaslyn

Gridref: SE 94700 80800   FB Number: S6231  Condition: Toppled  Score: 5/10

Middle of field of stubble

27th Apr 2005  14:45  by manonabike

Gridref: SE 94767 80815   FB Number: S6231  Condition: Toppled  Score: 5/10

17th Mar 2005  12:00  by iainmac

Gridref: SE 94779 80874   FB Number: S6231  Condition: Toppled  Score: 3/10

As predicted by RoPeHe the boundary has gone leaving this one in the middle of a field.

S6231
S6231
S6231
S6231

27th Feb 2005  08:30  by sleepwalker

FB Number: S6231  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Made a quick dash from the road into the field as there was a farm nearby.

19th Sep 2004  19:15  by RoPeHe

Gridref: SE 94780 80874   FB Number: S6231  Condition: Toppled  Score: 4/10

All metalwork present, but pillar is leaning slightly. Pillar has evidently been moved bodily around 60 metres north to a field boundary, though the field boundary itself seems at risk.

Rye pillar ©RoPeHe
Flush Bracket S6231 ©RoPeHe
Spider and Plug ©RoPeHe