Ordnance Survey celebrates 80 years of the trig pillars that helped map Great Britain. ... Ed Fielden captured one of the most northerly trig points, on the Shetland Islands.

Shetland has been placed back on the map with the introduction of a new law which bans it being put in a box. For hundreds of years cartographers have put the islands, which are 125 miles away ...

Trig points helped to create the most accurate and artistically pleasing maps the world has ever seen. Or it’s the fact that we can stand on them and have our photo taken. The nature of a trig ...

Ordnance Survey celebrates 80 years of the trig pillars that helped map Great Britain. ... Ed Fielden captured one of the most northerly trig points, on the Shetland Islands.

On 18 April 1936, a group of surveyors gathered around a white concrete pillar in a field in Cold Ashby, Northamptonshire, and began the retriangulation of Great Britain. Ordnance Survey (OS) is ...