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After the splendid hills of yesterday it was rather depressing to be returning to the miserable unitary tops of Tyneside. That said, the Newcastle one turned out to be OK, albeit aided and abetted by a lovely sunny morning.
In search of the little concrete fella we went a-wandering round an open grassy area to the east of the reservoir (the council probably lovingly describe it as a “recreational amenity area”). Here there was still a lamentable paucity of OS survey markers, but at least it offered surprisingly good views across Newcastle. Simon Edwardes’ ever-diligent mapwork had suggested that point
NZ 16040 69645 On the B6323 (Callerton Lane) could be a rival high point
for a Newcastle. We drove up there, only for our GPS to tell us it was
a good 3 metres lower. Still, by going at least we’d fulfilled the
infamous “just in case” principle!
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On the approach we were surprised to actually
see a rare numbered “C” road – Hill Head Road has signs
up saying it’s the C110. We parked in the closest possible road
(Wedmore Road), and it took but a moment to walk down to the county top
on a path off the road corner. The map showed a trig point set on top
of a bounded reservoir, and we thought we would be unable to reach it.
However, the boundary fence had long since been trampled into the dust
by the passage of countless feet and a small bank led up to the top of
the reservoir. The reservoir was bounded by trees so we couldn’t
see much; what we particularly couldn’t see was the trig point –
even the GPS couldn’t lead us to it.