Travellers' Rest stone at Stag Inn traffic island, Lower Walton is a Grade II listed building in the Warrington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 August 2023. Seat.
Travellers' Rest stone at Stag Inn traffic island, Lower Walton
- WRENN ID
- seventh-copper-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Warrington
- Constituency
- Warrington South MP: Sarah Hall (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 August 2023
- Type
- Seat
- Address
- Travellers' Rest stone at Stag Inn traffic island, Lower Walton, On the East Side of the Junction of Walton New Road A56 with Chester Road A5060, Opposite 33 Chester Road, WA4 6ER
- OS grid reference
- SJ 604 859
- Coordinates
- 53.36937, -2.59597
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Travellers' Rest is a stone seat for travelling migrants, dating from around 1860 and designed by James Kendrick. It is made of red sandstone and is set in concrete within a small enclosure on the traffic island at Lower Walton, overlooked by number 33 Chester Road.
The seat measures 63 inches in length, 22 inches in depth, and 16 inches in height. It features a slightly domed center to help shed water, spanning a width of 39 inches. At both ends, the seat steps down by 6 inches to a lower section that is 12 inches wide and 10 inches high. The vertical face of the upper step is inscribed with the words "TRAVELLERS’ REST."
Local climate
Travellers' Rest stone at Stag Inn traffic island, Lower Walton 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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