Wayside Monument is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1962. Monument.
Wayside Monument
- WRENN ID
- muffled-entrance-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1962
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Wayside Monument, A342, Etchilhampton
- OS grid reference
- SU 029 598
- Coordinates
- 51.33753, -1.95896
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wayside Monument is an 18th-century limestone structure located on the north side of the A342 in Etchilhampton. It features a rusticated plinth with a cornice and a square central section with chamfered corners. Each face of the monument bears inscriptions on grey stone tablets. The upper part has a moulded cornice and a cresting with a lion rampant, although one paw is missing, and it has an iron tail. The inscriptions on the east, south, and west sides are identical and read: "A. D. this monument from a general sense of gratitude / was erected to the Memory of / JAMES LONG / late of Wedhampton Esqre / whose publick spirit and benevolance / which he ever exercised for the service / of Mankind, were remarkably exerted / in planning, promoting and compleating this New Road / An: Dom. 1?68 / By which/ a former tedious and dangerous Way / over the adjacent Hill / is avoided / to the great Pleasure and convenience of Travellers / IN RECTO DECUS." The fourth side includes the inscription: "By Permission Michael Tichb(ourne) Esq."
Local climate
Wayside Monument receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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