Liberty Tomb (Beside Path to West of Mill Farm) at National Grid Reference Tq 0098 9877 is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1986. Tomb.
Liberty Tomb (Beside Path to West of Mill Farm) at National Grid Reference Tq 0098 9877
- WRENN ID
- endless-iron-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Chesham and Amersham MP: Sarah Green (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1986
- Type
- Tomb
- Address
- Liberty Tomb (Beside Path to West of Mill Farm) at National Grid Reference Tq 0098 9877, Chenies Bottom
- OS grid reference
- TQ 009 987
- Coordinates
- 51.67872, -0.5408
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Liberty Tomb, located beside the path 500 meters west of Mill Farm, is a chest tomb dating from 1777. It commemorates William Liberty, a brickmaker from Chorley Wood, who was buried here by his own desire after his death on April 21, 1777, at the age of 53, alongside his wife, Alice Liberty. The tomb features a thick limestone slab engraved with the inscriptions, set atop a chest with a chamfered plinth and fine-jointed red brick sides. Each end of the chest has a reeded surround with a panel cut into the brick, and there are two additional panels on the south face next to the path. A small granite slab is set into the brickwork at the west end. The tomb is aligned east-west and is enclosed by an iron railing. Historical records from Kelly in 1914 note that the tomb was situated in an orchard 200 yards east of the old church.
Local climate
Liberty Tomb (Beside Path to West of Mill Farm) at National Grid Reference Tq 0098 9877 sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer 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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