O.S. Triangulation Pillar - Peace Hill, Fife.
Posted by: creg-ny-baa
N 56° 25.081 W 002° 59.931
30V E 500070 N 6252605
Ordnance Survey trig pillar, constructed in 1948, and now converted into a memorial, situated on the south side of the Firth of Tay west of the Fife village of Wormit, overlooking the Tay Bridge and Dundee to the north.
Waymark Code: WM10WW7
Location: Northern Scotland, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 07/03/2019
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This pillar is situated on a low hill at only 74 metres high, but has a spectacular outlook northwards over the Firth of Tay to the city of Dundee. It is located on Peace Hill, near the farm of Peacehill, nearly a mile to the west of the Fife village of Wormit which lies at the southern end of the Tay Railway Bridge. The pillar is around a few hundred yards above the southern shore of the Tay where the Fife Coastal Path passes along Wormit Bay.
This pillar is unique in being converted into a stone bench and memorial to a local farmer and his wife. A short wall has been constructed on either side with a plaque fixed on the northward face looking over the Tay. The inscription reads as follows:
'In Memory Of
Thomas (Binks)
Douglas Forster
Born Rangoon Burma
12.09.1917
Died 03.01.2011
And
Muriel Jean
Forster (Wallace)
Born Drumnod Farm
21.08.1921
Died 15.02.2011
Farmed at Peacehill
1926-1977'
Fortunately a recess has been left on the other side of the wall, leaving the flush bracket uncovered.
STEEPNESS:A stiff short pull up from the path southwards.
TERRAIN: From the path, grass, which depending on the time of year can be knee high in places, although various paths have been formed by other visitors.
ACCESSIBILITY: Around half a mile from the car park at the end of Bay Road on the shoreline at the western end of Wormit.
NAVIGATION: From the end of the car parking area at the Tay Bridge Disaster Memorial, the coastal path should be followed around the bay. An track heading for an old quarry heads up the hillside southwards and the last hundred yards or so are a pull across the grassy terrain. A barbed-wire fence can be negotiated en-route by a gate. The pillar is visible from a few yards away to the south.
DANGER: Easy to get lost from leaving the coastal path.