Hall of Shame: Corporate Desecration

Corse Hill (27A)

Graham Bunn: Had a look from the south, but no parking and no welcome, so we went to the north and parked where a track goes to the windfarm and a road goes to Carrot. Took signed path across field and onto forest track. Just after Dickman's Glen a padlocked gate was encountered. Signs had been removed; we noticed one thrown in long grass 'Keep Out - Construction Site'. We continued along the track, which stops at some boulders and a track for a new windfarm. The site is a hideous mess. The track marked on the map is no longer there. We followed windfarm tracks around to the trig point, which is next to a building with generators. At present the whole area is an eyesore, but when the windfarm is constructed it may give access from the road to the east.

Ward Hill, Fair Isle (22)

Tom Waghorn: The summit is a ruined concrete monstrosity, with a rusting cooking range, from wartime RAF radar days.

Alan Dawson: A lovely island, reached by a brilliant flight, with wonderful cliffs and coastal scenery. The summit is a rubbish dump of large ugly concrete blocks, apparently the result of the destruction of wartime relics so that they would not detract from a fleeting royal visit 48 years ago. As Eric Young succinctly put it, the island residents have been trying to decide what to do about the resulting mess ever since, and don't want to be rushed into a decision.

Some of the concrete junk on top of Ward Hill (photo: Alan Dawson)