Triangulation Pillar
TRIANGULATION PILLAR, BEACON HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1318517
- Date first listed:
- 10-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Triangulation Pillar
- Statutory Address:
- TRIANGULATION PILLAR, BEACON HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1318517
- Date first listed:
- 10-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Triangulation Pillar
- Statutory Address 1:
- TRIANGULATION PILLAR, BEACON HILL
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- TRIANGULATION PILLAR, BEACON HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bulford
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 19500 42749
Details
BULFORD BEACON HILL SU 14 SE 6/86 Triangulation Pillar
II Triangulation pillar, c1936 within enclosure and over gun end of base of original Principal Triangulation of 1794. Concrete pillar in form of square cone with bronze tripod base on top, and benchmark on side (height 204m). Original triangulation point consists of an iron cannon set vertically 3m in ground, the muzzle filled and holding the north-east corner of the primary survey triangle for western England, later protected by 1.9m concrete kerb in form of chamfered square, and all set in triangular earthwork with ditch of 2m wide. This point is 36,574 ft from the southern point near Old Sarum. (Welfare, H.G., Survey Review XXV 194. October 1979)
Listing NGR: SU1950042749
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 321397
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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