Travellers' Rest stone at Lymm petrol filling station is a Grade II listed building in the Warrington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1984. Stone seat.
Travellers' Rest stone at Lymm petrol filling station
- WRENN ID
- veiled-hall-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Warrington
- Constituency
- Tatton MP: Esther McVey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1984
- Type
- Stone seat
- Address
- Travellers' Rest stone at Lymm petrol filling station, 39 Higher Lane, WA13 0BA
- OS grid reference
- SJ 686 867
- Coordinates
- 53.37685, -2.47259
- 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 fixed in the ground at the edge of the forecourt of the Lymm petrol filling station, surrounded by a small gravel border.
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.
Partially buried, the lower step is nearly level with the kerb of the forecourt, which may obscure a date. The stone is damaged, featuring a crack at the west end, a missing chunk at the east end of the top step, and several score marks on the south face, where the inscription 'travellers' rest' is located. Below this, the south face is inscribed in Roman capitals with the words MARY RIDGWAY/ A NEPHEW’S AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE. The west face of the top step includes an Ordnance Survey datum benchmark, while the north face displays vertical tooling.
Local climate
Travellers' Rest stone at Lymm petrol filling station sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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