Almost gone
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Almost gone
Image: © Neil Owen Taken: 23 Nov 2011
This is all that now remains of a bolt benchmark, located on the corner of the Bristol Royal Infirmary in Upper Maudlin Street, adjoining Lower Maudlin Street. Once (back in the mid nineteenth century) it would have had a full set of arrows and a datum line rather like this one in Portland Square:Image See http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm28904 for more details of the marks in the Benchmark Database.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.458963
Longitude
-2.595258