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Essex - Redbridge

Google's version of Darking and Bagenham's list of "buildings and Monuments of Importance". For some reason they don't seem to know about No. 2. Darking and Bagenham's Local List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest does not mention either Post or Post 2.
Post 1, Dagenham Road
Post 2, Wood Lane / Rush Green Road

Post 3, West Ham United F.C. training ground. Listed building - see this document page 29.

Posts 4 through 7 lie on a much older boundary, dating from Norman times and marked by stones erected in 1641. See this Hainault Forest page.
 
Post 4, Chadwell Heath. I missed an interesting pump nearby. See also the Hainault Forest page.
Valence House. Neither of these stones is Post 5 - it was a Type 2. For next visit, remember that Valence House shuts at 16:30.
Post 5, approx. original position. In the foreground is the end of Pemberton Gardens and we are looking southeast.
Forest Bounds stonePost 5 in its original position, photographed in 1910 beside the Forest Bounds stones.
Post 6 should be in the hedge just to the left of the sign but I could see no trace of it. Note the seam across the road.
Collier Row stone
Post 7, Hog Hill Road. Apparently, lurking in the vegetation near the speed limit sign there is an Hainault Forest boundary stone. The write-up says a "lamp post … was digitally removed". I presume by "lamp post" they actually mean the speed limit sign.

The Maypole, 171 Lambourne Road, Chigwell, IG7 6EF at
Post 8, Manor Road. This and Post 9 are both on the IG / RM postcode boundary
Post 9, Abridge Road

Essex - Epping

Obelisk 10 shows up very clearly on this Google aerial photo giving a grid ref of . I have not got within sight of the obelisk yet but here is a train on the Circle Line looking north from the bridge at . It was called the Eastern Counties Railway when the obelisk was erected and it became the Great Eastern Railway.


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Post 13.5? Could it be that Martin Nail missed one? At the OS map marks an 'Obelisk'. It lies pretty close to the direct line between Posts 13 & 14 and it even looks like a Tax Post on Google's aerial photo! Another visit is definitely needed.

Post 14, Galleyhill Green
Post 15, Waltham Road
Post 16, Waltham Road / St Leonards Road, near the Coach and Horses pub
A far-flung corner of the Lee Valley Park with a path that just stops close to …
where Post 17 orter be at the start of Colemans Lane
N018_383 Post 18, Colemans Lane
Post 19, Colemans Lane

Broxbourne

N021_388 Post 21, beside the railway in Wormley
Post 22, outside 137 High Road, Turnford
Post 23, E side of Holy Cross Hill. Opposite a footpath. 40 yds N of Holy Cross Stables, 100 yds S of Holy Hill Farm. 60 yds S of picnic place (now closed - search this PDF for "paradise").
N024 Post 24, deep inside Wormley Wood (image from Geograph)

N030 Post 30, Heath Road, Potters Bar (image from Geograph)

Post 65
Post 66
Post 67 and Plate 68
037175037177 Obelisk 69

Poyle Pump
Post 77 and Plate 78, Colnbrook
Mad Bridge

Post 81?, Wraysbury Road, Staines
Stone 83, The London Stone (Staines)

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Post 84 ++++ all these images for Posts 84 - 86 are in the photobox gallery
Post 85
Post 86
near Post 86
Post 87

cwdum stuff

Extracted rather pointlessly from the SQL data. 2020 Jul 07
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Post 12,  [[#TQ432994]]
South side of Coppice Row, Epping
N of Jacks Hill, 500 yards E of the "Wake Arms"
033035 Post 13,  [[#TL437004]]
Epping Road, Epping
about 500 metres SW of the Bell Common Tunnel
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Obelisk 20,  [[#TL373050]]
Wormley. Beside the Lea Navigation near King's Weir Bridge. Bench Mark.

In the first picture the Navigation is between the stone and the pole visible in the background.
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Obelisk 21,  [[#TL369051]]
Slipe Lane, Wormley. On east side of the railway line.
Described in ?1966 as "lying in several pieces on the ground. The inscription not identifiable."
Now re-erected, top foot or so of height missing but crest, inscription (14 & 15 VIC. C 146) and Bench Mark all clearly visible.

(The photos of this obelisk and the canal stone above were taken at dawn on May Day morning while the light was a bit too weak for my camera.)
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035128 035129 Post 37,  [[#TL182037]]
High Street, London Colney
Just north west of the bridge over the River Colne

035125 Post 38,  [[#TL176032]]
Shenley Lane, London Colney
South side of Broad Colney Bridge
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035120 035121 Post 39,  [[#TL172023]]
Harper Lane, Shenley
Outside No. 108 The Lodge and near Harperbury Hospital
035123   Post 40,  [[#TL174025]]
Harper Lane, Shenley
Outside No. 67
035122 Harper Lane, Shenley
Midway between these two Tax Posts. Just a post to announce that this is No. 100 but nice echoes of Tax Posts.
Cab drivers on night shift wish that all houses showed their numbers as clearly as this.
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Post 43,  [[#TL160007]]
Watling Street, Radlett
East side of road, opposite Kitswell Way, south of the culvert for a stream and half a mile north of the station
035119 Post 44,  [[#TL163001]]
Watling Street, Radlett
West side of road, 100 yards north of Park Road, beside Radlett United Synagogue
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Posts 47 & 48,  [[#TQ110964]]
Watford
At either end of an alley between
<--  New Street 
and
 High Street  -->

The other post can be seen in the background of each of these pictures.
 
No descriptive signs of any sort.  No indication that these posts are not in their original positions - compare with the careful notice on Post 98 that it has been moved just two metres.
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Post 58,  [[#TQ05839225]]
Rickmansworth Road, Harefield at the point where it becomes Harefield Road, Rickmansworth. 
Just on to the Hertfordshire side of the county boundary - a 'Welcome to Hillingdon' sign can be seen on the right of this photo.
 
Left hand photos: 2003 Apr 14. Right hand photo: 2012 Jun 07.
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More [http://community.webshots.com/album/90949265kEtRut pictures of this post] in daylight and showing before- and after-restoration states.
2012-06-07 20:04:45 Fr:126u00 Sq:N058000

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