Flush Bracket 2656: Horderley   

Flush Bracket on buttress, N. side of road, 11 chains W. from Horderley Railway Station [2GL] - estimated location; FB reported destroyed 30/05/1974.

Location
Grid reference: SO 4071 8679.
Landranger 137: Ludlow & Church Stretton, Wenlock Edge.
Structure: Roadside wall.
Waypoint: FB2656.

Neighbouring Flush Brackets

2727	Ridgway 1.12km to the west.
2655	by Pillocksgreen Plantation 1.99km to the northeast.
2728	Edgton 2.24km to the southwest.
G5207	Plowden 2.87km to the northwest.
2654	Crosspipes 3.19km to the northeast.

The nearest fundamental bench mark is Church Stretton, 8.46km to the northeast.

Second Geodetic Levelling, England & Wales (1912-21)
This flush bracket was used during the Second geodetic levelling, England & Wales, and was levelled with a height of 498.7060 feet [152.0056 metres] above mean sea level (Newlyn datum). It was included on the Church Stretton to Brecon levelling line. The surveyor's description was Flush Bracket on buttress, N. side of road, 11 chains W. from Horderley Railway Station.

Logged Visits
Logged on 10th February 2005 by the_cheshire_cat. Condition: Probably destroyed.
From description given, presume FB was/is on embankment walls at entrance to house uphill from old railway station, but no sign of it when visited, but could be hidden by vegetation.

Logged on 23rd January 2005 by RHW. Condition: Probably destroyed.
Rly Sta nicely preserved, sign on grassy platform, no trace of buttress