The Apostles Farm trig point bag can either be an easy bag, or you can make more of it. I had intended to park at the gate to the field with the trig point. However, my car isn’t built for narrow lanes or tackling off-road conditions so opted instead to park in a pull-in at the junction to Apostles Lane.
From here, it’s about a mile and a half to the Apostles Farm trig point.
All you need to do is follow the lane to the gate, nip up the field and bag the trig.
However, the trig is pretty well buried in a dividing hedge.
Worth noting that the field you go into doesn’t actually contain the trig pillar – but you can access it from this field.
Follow the track to the right to the top and it’s in the hedge. You can just about lean over to tag it. I did hop over the sturdy barbed wire fence to see if it was accessible from the adjacent field. You can’t really see it, but you can just about tag it.
I grabbed the photos for this blog from the other side of the fence in the field entered through the gate.
Had to negotiate some holly branches and various other shrubbery. It didn’t want to make it easy for me! Scagging my clothes, getting caught in my hair and catching my bag nearly pulling me on my arse!
There wasn’t much to say about this one. Easy with a nice walk. Even easier if you want to brave the very narrow track and park at the gate. There is room to park but if it’s wet, that’s a big muddy quagmire to try and get out of afterwards. If it’s dry, like it was today, I’m not responsible for ripping your sump off with the uneven mud mounds!
Park at the junction. Get those miles up!
The lane is long and boring, but a longer walk comes without costly car repair bills!
The lane was quite busy too. Passing a tractor and a couple of cars and 4x4s – all seemed very friendly waving and smiling! Makes a change, a lane like this one normally entails questioning from the locals. As I passed a couple o houses, I did knock at a farmhouse called Apostles Farm – assumed this was the landowner (although there were a couple of houses) but they didn’t answer. At least I tried – the White House Farm trig point bag left a sour taste in my mouth so decided to play it safe from then on by asking.
However, there was nobody about and you can quickly nip in and nip out with causing any damage or grief to the sheep – not that I do anyway but people oddly suspect the worst I’ve come to realise while trig bagging! It must be how I look. Do trig baggers have to look a certain way to avoid any agg or do I just ask for it?!
Anyway, Apostles Farm trig point in the bag!
Another to check off the list! Thanks for reading and if you want to follow more of my 2023 Herefordshire trig bagging exploits, catch me over on Instagram. Thanks!
Grid reference: SO 27938 52235 | T:UK waypoint: TP0862 | Taken from www.streetmap.co.uk
