Epping Forest: Wake Arms Triangulation Pillar

Introduction

The photograph on this page of Epping Forest: Wake Arms Triangulation Pillar by Nigel Cox as part of the Geograph project.

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Epping Forest: Wake Arms Triangulation Pillar

Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 3 Mar 2010

Now incongruously situated in a reserve between two sets of parking bays for a restaurant, overshadowed by two thoughtlessly planted trees and entirely surrounded by a little hedge, the Wake Arms triangulation pillar may never be used by a surveyor again. In fact the Ordnance Survey website describes it as a subject of suspected vandalism. Since old maps show that the wood on the right pre-dated the pillar it was probably used with an observation tower anyway. The pillar has however outlived by some margin the public house after which it was named, which was demolished many years ago. The flush bracket on the side has a height of 112.02 metres or 367.5 feet above sea level.

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Image Location

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Latitude
51.67632
Longitude
0.062869