Whipping Post North of the Churchyard Gate is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 April 1967. A C17-C18 Post.
Whipping Post North of the Churchyard Gate
- WRENN ID
- pitched-casement-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 April 1967
- Type
- Post
- Address
- Whipping Post North of the Churchyard Gate, Souther Cross Road, Good Easter
- OS grid reference
- TL 626 121
- Coordinates
- 51.78402, 0.35631
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The whipping post, located north of the churchyard gate in Good Easter, is a wooden post dating from the 17th to 18th century, featuring iron fittings. It was removed from the village green in the 19th century, where it previously stood alongside the stocks.
Local climate
Whipping Post North of the Churchyard Gate sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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