Pivot benchmark on Newbold Church
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Pivot benchmark on Newbold Church
Image: © Shantavira Taken: 8 Aug 2015
This rare example of a nineteenth-century pivot benchmark was established between 1850 and 1856 during the First primary levelling of England & Wales, and was levelled with a height of 210.6860 feet [64.2171 metres] above mean sea level (Liverpool datum). It was included on the Basingstoke to Coventry levelling line. The surveyor's description was No. 172. "Mark on buttress at S.E. corner of Newbold Church, Newbold Village ; 0.88 ft. above surface" (Public Abstract p.239).
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Image Location
Latitude
52.113126
Longitude
-1.640576