Travellers' Rest stone at Grappenhall is a Grade II listed building in the Warrington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 2008. Monument.
Travellers' Rest stone at Grappenhall
- WRENN ID
- fallow-terrace-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Warrington
- Constituency
- Warrington South MP: Sarah Hall (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 2008
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Travellers' Rest stone at Grappenhall, In the South Verge to Chester Road and Adjacent to the Bridgewater Canal, Opposite Barrymore Road, Grappenhall and Thelwall, WA4 2PZ
- OS grid reference
- SJ 632 863
- Coordinates
- 53.37299, -2.55417
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Travellers' Rest is a stone seat for travelling migrants, built in 1859 and designed by James Kendrick. It was donated by Thomas Lawton.
Made of red sandstone, the seat is located in the grass verge between the road and the canal towpath. It measures 63 inches in length, 22 inches in depth, and 16 inches in height. The stone is slightly domed in the centre to allow water to run off, spanning a width of 39 inches. At each end, the seat steps down by 6 inches to a lower section that is 12 inches wide and 10 inches high.
On the north face of the upper step, it is inscribed with the words ‘TRAVELLERS’ REST.’ Below this, it reads ‘GIVEN BY THOMAS LAWTON OF GRAPPENHALL./ 1859.’ The south face features diagonal tooling.
Local climate
Travellers' Rest stone at Grappenhall 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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