Local List: Road signpost at junction of School Road and New Road, Messing (DCC26143)

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Grade Other
Authority Colchester Borough Council
Date assigned 24 August 2020
Date last amended

Description

Cast iron sign post with distinctive semi-circular parish plate finial. Manufactured by Maldon Iron Works during the 1920s/30s. One of the arms (of three) has been broken off and replaced with a modern arm. The signpost was adopted onto the Local List by the Local Plan Committee on 24/08/20. An example of a historic, and locally manufactured, road sign, one of a small number of surviving examples in the Borough.

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  • Photograph: Tipper, Jess. 2020. Digital photographs of road signpost at junction of School Road and New Road, Messing. Digital.

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Location

Grid reference TL 8943 1844 (point)
Map sheet TL81NE
County ESSEX
Civil Parish MESSING-CUM-INWORTH, COLCHESTER, ESSEX

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Record last edited

Sep 4 2020 8:39AM

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