Ordnance Survey Obelisk is a Grade II listed building in the Waltham Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1987. A C19 Monument.

Ordnance Survey Obelisk

WRENN ID: wild-lead-heron
Grade: II
Local Planning Authority: Waltham Forest
Country: England
Date first listed: 24 February 1987
Type: Monument
Source: Historic England listing

Description

TQ 39 SE POLE HILL Chingford, E4 1/18

Ordnance Survey Obelisk
II

Ordnance Survey Obelisk. 1824. Granite monolith. Above eight feet high with battered sides and flat top. Inscribed plaque inset. Erected to mark the direction of the true norLh from the Royal Observatory at Greenwich. The meridian was changed in 1850 and the point of zero now passes 19 feet to the east of the Obelisk.

Listing NGR: TQ3839594950

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