Page images
PDF
EPUB

Names of stations.

Danbury
Pleshley

Hatfield Broad Oak Steeple

Danbury
High Easter

Thaxted Spire

Hatfield Broad Oak

Pleshley

Beauchamp Roding Spire

Danbury
Peldon

Stoke

[merged small][ocr errors]
[ocr errors]

O 12

Stoke
Thaxted

1

4 30 152 53 10

25 45 6
29 43 54

54 20 51
39 25

Hatfield Broad Oak

Thaxted

27 24 19 118 2 28

Beauchamp Roding

Distances.

The angle observed from the station on Danbury Steeple, between Hatfield Broad Oak and Thaxted, was 30° 33′ 40′′; this, with the including sides, 85094 and 101330 feet, gives the following triangle:

[ocr errors]

Danbury
30° 33′ 40′′
Hatfield Broad Oak 92 24 O
Thaxted

57 2 20, which gives the distance between Thaxted and Hatfield Broad Oak = 51566 feet.

Stoke

[ocr errors][ocr errors]

i

distance from Thaxted Spire to Lavenham Steeple.

[merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][ocr errors]

Again, the angle observed at Danbury, between Thaxted and Stoke was 66° 43′ 8′′; this, with the sides which form it, Danbury and Thaxted, Danbury and Stoke, gives the following triangle:

Danbury

Stoke

122630 63951

66° 43′ 8′′
48 25 16

64 51 36, from which we find 124430 feet, for the dis

Thaxted

tance from Thaxted to Stoke.

The angle at Lavenham Steeple, between Stoke and Thaxted, was likewise observed, and found to be 89° 10′ 30′′, which, with the distances of these latter stations from Lavenham, 48039 and 124430 feet, gives

Lavenham

89° 10′ 30′′

68 7 O

22 42 30, from which we find 115480 feet to be the

The angle at Danbury, between Southweald and Hatfield Broad Oak, was found to be 54° 44′ 30′′. The distances from Danbury to Southweald and Hatfield Broad Oak have been already found, the former being 77622 feet, and the latter 85096 feet; from these we get the triangle,

54° 44′ 30′′
67 42 5

Hatfield Broad Oak

57 33 25, which gives 75104 feet, for the distance between Hatfield Broad Oak and Southweald Steeples.

In order to connect the preceding triangles with those carried on for the survey of the south-western part of Essex, and of Hertfordshire, stations were selected on Hampstead Heath, and on Highbeech in Epping Forest, to which the great theodolite was taken, as related in the article detailing the particulars of the operations in 1799. The triangles making this connection are the following. The first, namely,

28° 58′ 10′′

94 49 5

Langdon Hill 56 12 45, is had from the included angle at Severndroog Tower, 28° 58′ 10′′, and the sides Severndroog Tower and Southweald, Severndroog Tower and Langdon Hill: the first is 73787 feet, and the second 88470 feet. From these data, we obtain the distance between the station on Langdon Hill and that on Southweald Steeple 43001 feet.

Severndroog Tower
Langdon Hill
Brentwood Steeple

Names of Stations.

Severndroog Tower
Southweald

Brentwood

Danbury
Southweald

Severndroog Tower
Southweald

Severndroog Tower

St. Paul's
Higbbeech

Severndroog Tower

Highbeech
Southweald

[ocr errors]
[blocks in formation]

33 53 4
51 24 12

Foot of the cross on the dome of St. Paul's from the station on Severndroog Tower 39962*. Phil. Trans. for 1787. p. 250.

44 34 28
69 53 13

U

Highbeech

[ocr errors]

Southweald

Feet.

78553* 36616

78553* 7706

71534 61919

73795* 55156

From the last triangle, we find the distance from Severndroog Tower to the station on Southweald Steeple to be 73795 feet; this, it will be perceived, is deduced from the distance between the cross on the deme of St. Paul's and Severndroog Tower; but 73791 feet has been found by the triangle, which is derived from the distance between the latter station and Wrotham. A difference of 4 feet on such a distance, all things considered, is not a large quantity.

Names of Stations.

Severndroog Tower
Highbeech

Brentwood Spire

Severndroog Tower
Highbeech

Hampstead Heath

Highbeech
Hampstead

St. Paul's

Highbeech, new station
Berkhamstead Gazebo
St. Paul's

[ocr errors]
[merged small][ocr errors]

Observed
Angles.

O

"

"

49 8 1

71 16 44

Severndroog Tower
Highbeech

Stand of Epping Windmill

51 24 12

58 29 19

St. Paul's to the new station 61738 feet.

24 36 5
83 I II

Highbeech, old station
66° 32′ 47′′
Highbeech, new station 113 3 46
St. Paul's

105 21 44
41 55 23

Distances.

Brentwood

As it became necessary to ascertain the situation of a high building near Berkhamstead, which, for distinction sake, I shall style the Gazebo, the instrument was removed from the station on Highbeech, to another farther west of it, as some trees obstructed the view of this object from the former. To get the distance from St. Paul's to this new station, the distance between it and the old one was measured, and found = 460 feet: the angles in the following triangle were also observed.

Hampstead Heath

844

10

122 10 45

St. Paul's

Gazebo

16 46 15 Epping Windmill

52 16

[ocr errors][merged small]

Epping Windmill

64855

59455

61919 25966

which gives the distance from

49631

88872

46717

17042

81891 17043

Names of Stations.

Highbeech, old station
Berkhamstead Gazebo
Stand of Epping Windmill

Hatfield Broad Oak Steeple
Berkhamstead Gazebo
Epping Windmill

Berkhamstead Gazebo
Hatfield Broad Oak
Naseing Steeple

Hatfield Broad Oak

Henham on the Mount
Thorley Steeple

Henham on the Mount
Thorley Steeple
Atterbury Steeple

At the new station on Highbeech, the angle between the staff on the Gazebo at Berkhamstead and the old station was observed, and found to be 141° 45′ 50′′. This angle, with the measured distance between the stations, and also the distance from the Gazebo to the new station, which are respectively 460 and 49628 feet, gives 49987 feet, for the distance between the new station on Highbeech and Berkhamstead Gazebo.

Hatfield Broad Oak
Berkhamstead Gazebo
Henbam on the Mount Steeple

Henham on the Mount
Thorley

Rickling Steeple

Observed
angles.

[ocr errors]

Henham on the Mount
Rickling

Elmdon Steeple

[ocr errors]
[ocr errors]

1

"1

99 19 16
17 41 25

[blocks in formation]

Epping Windmill

71 28 54 Thorley
36 30

20 54 0 146 35

O

Hatfield Broad Oak

Distances.

Henham on the Mount

Atterbury

Rickling

Elmdon

[ocr errors]
[ocr errors]
[ocr errors][ocr errors]
[merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small]

The angle between Albury and Elmdon Steeples was observed, at Henham on the Mount, and found to be 72° 47′ 38". The distances from the former stations to the latter are 37882 and 45275 feet, which give the following triangle:

72° 47' 38"

Henham
Albury

60 28 27

Elmdon

46 43 35, from whence we get the distance

Names of Stations.

between Albury and Elmdon 49701 feet.

Henham on the Mount
Elmdon

Thaxted Steeple

Elmdon

Thaxted

Balsbam Steeple

Elmdon

Balsham

Babraham Mount Station

Hatfield Broad Oak
Beauchamp Roding
High Easter Steeple

Severndroog Tower
Langdon Hill
Hornchurch Steeple

[ocr errors]

Langdon Hill

Gravesend

Hornchurch Steeple

[ocr errors]
[ocr errors]

Observed
angles.

O

"

"I

106 30 50

23 240

71 54 10
53 18 44

23 38 46
48 40 38

29 46 30
32 56 30

Henham
Thaxted

Hatfield Broad Oak

the distance of Thaxted from Hatfield Broad Oak.

51 9 50
64 26 10

21 6 9
24 10 20

77 57 33

50 59 0

} Thaxted

Elmdon

Babraham Mount

Triplow Steeple

The angle at Henham on the Mount, between Hatfield Broad Oak and Thaxted Steeples, is 109° 10′ 44′′; and the distances of the latter stations from the former one are 39266 and 22988 feet; from these data we have the triangle,

Balsham

[ocr errors]

Babraham Mount

Triplow

[merged small][ocr errors]

High Easter

Hornchurch

Hornchurch

[ocr errors][ocr errors]
[ocr errors]

Feet.

22988

56302

55262

65504

109° 10′ 44′′

45 56 29

24 52 47, which gives 51608 feet for

{43559

23251

24806 29185

24858 21460

50989 44832*

44837* 56438

« PreviousContinue »