2015
SP2971 : Nineteenth-century benchmark on railway bridge
taken 9 years ago, near to Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England
Nineteenth-century benchmark on railway bridge
This bench mark was established between 1850 and 1856 during the First primary levelling of England & Wales, and was levelled with a height of 281.2250 feet [85.7174 metres] above mean sea level (Liverpool datum). It was included on the Basingstoke to Coventry levelling line. The surveyor's description was "No. 229. Bolt in West battlement of bridge over Leamington and Coventry railway ; 2.37 ft. below top of battlement" (Public Abstract p.241). Not found on the 1888 map, perhaps because the arrow mark had already worn away by then. Only the bolt remains. It can be found on the north face of the parapet, west of the railway, beneath the overhanging branches of a sycamore tree.
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