Travellers' Rest stone at Red Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Warrington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 August 2023. Monument.
Travellers' Rest stone at Red Bank
- WRENN ID
- sheer-latch-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Warrington
- Constituency
- Warrington North MP: Charlotte Nichols (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 August 2023
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Travellers' Rest stone at Red Bank, On the South Side of the Junction of Hermitage Green Lane with Newton Road A49, Winwick, WA2 8SJ
- OS grid reference
- SJ 595 941
- Coordinates
- 53.44218, -2.6101
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Travellers' Rest is a stone seat for travelling migrants, built in 1862 and designed by James Kendrick. It is made of red sandstone and is located on the verge on the east side of the A49, near the site of the initial action 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 seat steps down by 6 inches, creating a lower seat that is 12 inches wide and 10 inches high.
The east face of the stone features vertical tooling, while the west face retains part of the inscription ‘Travellers’ Rest’ on the top step. Below this, there is an inscription that reads, ‘(illegible) NFESSED THAT THEY WERE STRANGERS (illegible)/ PILGRIMS ON THE EARTH.’ The upper face of the stone has modern graffiti inscribed on it.
Local climate
Travellers' Rest stone at Red Bank 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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