A large scotch and you’d never notice!
I found a couple of videos for you:
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That does have a door. Quite a well appointed residence!
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My last strenuous walking was the last week in August Snowdonia National Park also Criccieth Castle I clambered up to the top.
I do a couple of miles dog walking everyday.
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They come here every summer usually in July. It is breathtaking seeing them. The soldiers, most of whom who have no previous riding experience before joining, love it, as do the horses. Imagine plodding around the streets of London and then being able to gallop on those vast sands. They swim too which is very beneficial for the horses.
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And beef sandwiches Greengage…
Them horses look chuffed to bits. It makes me happy to see them being happy…
Mrs Fox and me just love Criccieth Ripple. We frequent a cafe’ overlooking the castle walls when we visit…Makes me wish I was there now…
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It does indeed. I usually have tears in my eyes when they all descend on the beach because it is so emotional.
My husband and daughter used to ride there a lot and our horses loved it but we are down to one elderly horse now and it would be too much for her. 
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It’s alright for some.
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We’ll just have to take it as it comes Azz 
I’ve already heard someone complain that it’s too hot… incredible! 
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You should take up ‘Trig Hunting’ Azz, there must be lots of them where you live…Great photos by the way… 
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What’s that Bob?
Nice to see you out in it too! 
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It’s a ‘Trig Point’ Azz, or to give it it’s proper name a ‘Triangulation Pillar’ Before GPS, Ordnance Survey built these concrete pillars on the top of hills and mountains in order to map the country. I think they started around 1935 and continued until sometime in the eighties. They also used things like church steeples and other prominent buildings. There are over 13000 scattered about the UK but I’m only interested in the pillars of which they number just over 6000 and are usually situated out in the wild places. So I’ve made it my mission to visit as many as I can while I’m still able. I’m surprised you haven’t come across them on your walks Azz.
10 interesting facts about Trig Points in the UK - Spotty Otter.
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Ah right, I have Bob… but the one in that pic was made out of stones placed on top of each other (no concrete). I’ve actually seen a few of them. On the other side of this there were some poppies, so I am guessing it might have something to do with that 
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Those trees look majestic Azz.
Thanks for sharing.
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They sometimes do build them out of stones Azz, like this one at ‘Caulkley’s Bank’ (sorry for the rain spot on the lens)
They all have a triangular spider on the top for the placement of the theodolite. The one you posted could be just a ‘Cairn’ it looks a bit too high for a trig point.
I bet you’re going to look for them now aren’t you?
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This seems like the story/film ‘An Englishman went up a hill came down a mountain’. Someone must have carried those rocks up there!
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Yes Greengage, I think the film was based on the early work of Ordnance Survey.
Carrying stones and cement to the top of mountains, they found a piano on the top of Ben Nevis…
Mystery of Piano Found on Scottish Mountain Solved | Playbill.
As previously reported, the Edinburgh-based John Muir Trust announced yesterday that its volunteers were surprised to discover the instrument, which was missing its keyboard, under a pile of stones near the 4,418ft peak. A best before date of 1986 on a biscuit wrapper indicated it had been there for decades.
As it turns out, the piano is actually an organ, and has been on the mountain for more than 35 years. Kenny Campbell, a woodcutter from the Highlands, told the Telegraph he carried it up the summit as a stunt to raise money for a charity cancer in 1971.
Campbell said, “It took me four days to get the organ to the top and when I did I played Scotland the Brave. I am quite sure that what they found is the organ. It had no keys on it because I stripped them off and gave them to friends - I had quite a lot of fans in those days.”
Campbell, 64, has also carried a beer barrel, a plough and a gas cylinder up Ben Nevis.
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