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<\/a>Yates’ Cairn (background) loctaed close to an Ordnance Survey benchmark (foreground)<\/p><\/div>\n
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Benchmark (<\/strong>Mudge\u2019s Station)<\/strong><\/p>\n Colonel William Mudge became Director of the Ordnance Survey in 1791. Writings and photograph courtesy of Mike Browell. More information on benchmarks can be found on the Ordnance Survey website here<\/a>, and an interactive map of historic benchmark locations here<\/a>. Yates’ Cairn marks the high point of Burbage Moor and is an excellent visual aid when trying to locate the benchmark pictured below.\u00a0Alan Yates, aware of the significance of the location and knowing that it would have historically been marked by a mound and post, maintained a discrete cairn to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":478,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-861671","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/861671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/478"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=861671"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/861671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":861831,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/861671\/revisions\/861831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
He instructed surveyors to mark the survey location by carving three permanent arrow benchmarks, of which this is one, to mark the position of a triangulation point. A line drawn from each benchmark would intersect at a \u2018Mudges Station\u2019. Subsequent Ordnance Survey surveyors would use these to locate their surveying equipment in exactly the same place. Mudge\u2019s Stations covered the whole country before 1955 when the white painted concrete \u2018trig points\u2019 were constucted.
About 25 years ago a local expert placed a metal pole in a mound of stones to make the Burbage Trig Point more visible.<\/p>\n
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Interestingly the benchmark at Yates’ cairn and the one atop Houndkirk Hill are not shown on the interactive map. Many more are probably unaccounted for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"