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[Tring38]

Why is the search not working properly? It's very difficult to find trigs or even towns

[agentmancuso]

The search might not work the way you expect it to, but that doesn't mean it's not working; as far as I can tell, it's working the way it always has.

[Tring38]

When i put in the name given on OS map for trig it doesn't show any results. I also tried the Flush bracket number in the search but nothing came up. Also if you put in a town like Ingleton, nothing comes up

[agentmancuso]

OS maps don't show names for triangulation stations.

The town search field does not check against a full gazetteer, but a finite list of towns, as per list here.

It's both true and weird that the search field doesn't return FB numbers. I get round this by checking on this benchmark site. The search field here (top right) does find by FB, and the Waypoint field on the resulting pillar takes you the T:UK page.

[Tring38]

Thank you for the info...I was on Cave Hill today and I would expect trig point to be named after hill it's on

[Tring38]

Just used gid ref: in the search box and it comes up with Cave Hill. Yet when I type in Cave Hill in search box it doesn't return anything....strange

[agentmancuso]

A reasonable assumption, but it's not always that simple. Many of the names surveyors accorded to stations are not what you'd expect. This partly reflects the fact that having fixed, monolithic names for geographical features is a relatively modern concept; it was common in the past for the farmer living on one side of a hill to have a different name for it from the farmer living on the other side. In Scotland and Wales the situation is even worse as the surveyors generally displayed the contempt for native languages common to colonial administrations, mangling phonetically words they didn't even bother to understand.

Station names for the OSGB36 survey were adopted wholesale from the original 19th century 1st triangulation. T:UK retains the names given by the OSGB36 project, irrespective of later corrections or variations.

The search field on the top bar is designed for GRs; if you use the advanced search form (magnifying glass or here) it will find Cave Hill in the Name field.