Travellers' Rest stone at Swan Green is a Grade II listed building in the Warrington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 2008. Seat.
Travellers' Rest stone at Swan Green
- WRENN ID
- woven-tower-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Warrington
- Constituency
- Warrington North MP: Charlotte Nichols (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 2008
- Type
- Seat
- Address
- Travellers' Rest stone at Swan Green, North Side of Junction of Newton Road A49 and Golborne Road A573, Winwick, WA2 8LF
- OS grid reference
- SJ 604 927
- Coordinates
- 53.42988, -2.59744
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Travellers' Rest is a stone seat for travelling migrants, dated 1860, and designed by James Kendrick. It is made of red sandstone and is located on the grassed area in front of St Oswald’s Church, which was the site of the conclusion of the Battle of Winwick in 1648.
The stone measures 63 inches in length, 22 inches in depth, and 16 inches in height. It has a slightly domed center to help shed water, spanning a width of 39 inches. At each end, the stone steps down by 6 inches to a lower seat that is 12 inches wide and 10 inches high. There is also a slight step in the plane of the north and south faces, where the stone rises.
The south face of the stone is inscribed with the words "TRAVELLERS’ REST/ (illegible) LOOK TOWARDS THY SANCTUARY WHILST I AM HERE/ 1860." The north face bears the same inscription and date, but it is more worn. Additionally, the upper face of the stone has some graffiti.
Local climate
Travellers' Rest stone at Swan Green sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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