Travellers' Seat is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 November 1953. Guidestone.
Travellers' Seat
- WRENN ID
- weathered-moulding-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Monmouthshire
- Constituency
- Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 19 November 1953
- Type
- Guidestone
- Address
- Travellers' Seat, Newcastle, Monmouth, Skenfrith
- OS grid reference
- SO 425 183
- Coordinates
- 51.86088, -2.83551
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Travellers' Seat is a guidestone for travellers, dated 1780. It is set in an upstand of a low rubble boundary wall at the roadside. The guidestone is a flat-faced slab approximately 1 meter high and 1¼ meters wide, featuring inscriptions that are now only partly legible. The second line reads "ERECTED 1780," and the following lines mention Crickhowell, Brecon, Ross, Gloucester, and Brecknock, along with their distances in "Miles from hence."
Local climate
Travellers' Seat receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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