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North’s Seat 175.7m (576ft)

Summit Feature: Not recorded. Note: 25m S of trig point and 0.3m higher.
Classification: Hill Trigpoint, Clem, Hump, P30 Tump.
OS Grid Ref: TQ843118 (10 figure Grid Ref: TQ8434111898).
UK Area: 42 - South-East England & the Isle of Wight (OS Maps 1:50k 199. 1:25k 124.)
Latitude: 50.87717, Longitude: 0.61894, Height: 175.7 metres (576 feet)
Prominence: 110 metres (361 feet)
Unique Waypoint POI Name: 0176.p (DoBIH Hill ID: 5449)

Associated Trigpoint:
  TP2396 'Fairlight Down' Grid Ref: TQ8434011923 Separation: 25m from Hill grid ref.

External Links for North’s Seat:
-GeoHack link... -OS Map Bing link... -Google Map link... -Geograph link... -North’s Seat on hill-bagging.co.uk... -Fairlight Down on trigpointinguk.com...

Selected mapping: Google or Bing / Ordnance Survey

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  • '0176.p' TQ843118 North’s Seat (176m, p110)

Member's Comments on North’s Seat...

  • Chris Pearson says...
  • Short steep walk up the rough track at end of Beacon Road to find trig lurking in brambles. In 1787,a triangulation survey from here linked London and Paris, enabling the British and French governments to produce compatible maps and charts that made international sea trade much safer, and therefore more profitable. To do this General William Roy of the British Army set up a 32-feet high scaffold tower about 100 yards north of where North’s Seat is today. On this tower he fixed a unique, highly-sophisticated theodolite with which he could make long-range observations of Sussex and Kent landmarks, and of two places in France. Fairlight Down and Dover Castle were the only English locations that could see both these French sites, and without Fairlight the survey would probably not have taken place. Its success resulted in the setting up in 1791 of the Ordnance Survey.
  • JohnR says...
  • Climbed up to the summit toposcope via Beacon Road and then eventually found the Trigpoint deep in brambles and gorse with a little help from Google Maps. No views as very foggy - 30/12/2016.
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North’s Seat has been climbed by...

Adrian Alixia Andrew Brown andys Areluctant-triggeR arrans assynt_bob bramley Carole Chalky1953 Chris Pearson citygent Colin Crawford Denise Des Taylor Dugswell2 gerrybowes GordonAdshead Griefmiester hmarston iaindbrown JohnR jonglew Lindsay M micks trigs mpboardman@gmail.com nordicstar oakesave PeterD PGCE Pritch227 rhw slateloose stevent0809

 

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