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Name:Signpost in Rectory Road, Orsett
SMR Number:40693
Type of record:Monument
Grid Reference:TQ 645 822
Map Sheet:TQ68SW
Parish:Orsett, THURROCK, ESSEX
THURROCK, ESSEX

Summary

Signpost. Cast iron. Manufactured by Maldon Iron Works

Full description

Signpost. 1920s/1930s. Cast iron. Manufactured by Maldon Iron Works. A circular section tapered post with flat semicircular parish plate finial reading PARISH OF / ORSETT and E.C.C. / STICK NO BILLS in centre. Three 7-incharms reading (1) CHADWELL 3 / TILBURY FORT (2) HORNDON 2 / LAINDON HILLS 4 ½ (3) BULPHAN 3 ½ / BRENTWOOD 9 B188. Fully engineered and restored by C and C Engineering, 134 Soxton Road, Grays in 2001. <1>


Historic Landscape Management, 2002, Mardyke Valley Project; A Brief Landscape History of the Mardyke Valley (DESC TEXT). SEX68863.


<1> Nicholls, John V, 2005, Essex survey of cast iron signposts 2002-2005. (DESC TEXT). SEX65977.

Monument Types

  • SIGNPOST (C20, Modern - 1919 AD to 1975 AD)

Associated Events

  • Mardyke River Valley Project (Ref: ?)

Protected Status

  • Historic Environment Character Area: Thames Gateway 111
  • Historic Environment Character Zone: Thames Gateway 111_9

Sources and further reading

---DESC TEXT: Historic Landscape Management. 2002. Mardyke Valley Project; A Brief Landscape History of the Mardyke Valley.
<1>DESC TEXT: Nicholls, John V. 2005. Essex survey of cast iron signposts 2002-2005..