Concrete is Fun and Interesting... Honest!

My roadtrips are getting further from home and require increasing amounts of time and planning, and I’m rapidly reaching the point where daytrips simply aren’t viable any more.    I’ll probably stop soon, whether I’m on a round number or not, but I’m not quite there yet.  There are still one or two parts of the country I’ve not yet visited.  There are a few opportunities for a couple of drive-by bags, which I’m sure I won’t be able to resist.    I have unfinished business in a few of the places that I’ve already been to.  There’s a handful of pillars I want to bag to extend runs of consecutrigs, or fill in gaps in sequences.  I want to re-attempt a few of my failures, which I rarely talk about, having since figured out why I failed to get them.  And there’s a couple of pillars I just want to visit because they’re in some way interesting.  I’d love to see my name make the top 100 most prolific trigpointers list, but that would need me to ...

July 2026.   Since Covid, I’ve been on 59 dedicated trigspeditions, the vast majority of which have been memorable for very good reasons.   So I asked myself, where can I go that would make my 60 th roadtrip stand proud among the best of them?   My favourite memory so far is reaching the Worcestershire Beacon in time to see the sun creep over the horizon…   so let’s do something like that again!   I don’t think I’ve ever driven on five different consecutive motorways before; nor have I ever visited the fair county of Shropshire.   The Wrekin is not a difficult location to drive to, being a short distance from the end of the M54, and if you’re lucky (or early) enough, there’s free parking to be had along the road beneath the hill.   Now I know where I want to go, can I find another dozen or so pillars in the vicinity that would make this a worthwhile trip?   I screengrabbed a map of the area and looked up each blue triangle in turn on Trigpointing...