Pole Hill Obelisk
Pole Hill Obelisk is an obelisk in Waltham Forest, Greater London, England. Pole Hill Obelisk is situated nearby to Saint Francis Church of England, as well as near Chingford Police Station.Photo: Spudgun67, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Obelisk
- Description: obelisk in Waltham Forest, London, England, UK
- Also known as: “Ordnance Survey Obelisk”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Chingford railway station and North Chingford Library.
Chingford railway station
Railway station
Photo: Sunil060902, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Chingford railway station is the terminus of the Chingford branch of the Lea Valley Lines, located in Chingford in the London Borough of Waltham Forest. Chingford railway station is situated 2,900 feet southeast of Pole Hill Obelisk.
North Chingford Library
Library
Photo: Julian Osley, CC BY-SA 2.0.
North Chingford Library is situated 2,000 feet southeast of Pole Hill Obelisk.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chingford and Friday Hill.
Chingford
Suburb
Photo: Richard Dunn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Chingford is a suburban town in east London, England, within the London Borough of Waltham Forest. Situated on the Lea Valley, around 9.5 miles north-east of Charing Cross, it lies between the River Lea in the west and Epping Forest in the north and east.
Friday Hill
Neighborhood
Photo: PeterChingfordHistory99, CC0.
Friday Hill is a housing estate in Chingford, named after the hill of the same name, lying north of Chingford Hatch. It takes its name from a John Friday who held land there in the fifteenth century; prior to this, it was known as Jackatt Hill. Friday Hill House, on the crest of the hill, designed by the architect Lewis Vulliamy, was built in 1839.
Chingford Hatch
Neighborhood
Chingford Hatch was one of the three hamlets comprising the old parish of Chingford, before the parish was developed in the nineteenth century into a large suburban town.
Pole Hill Obelisk
- Categories: historic site and memorial
- Location: Waltham Forest, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.63633° or 51° 38′ 11″ northLongitude
-0.00157° or 0° 0′ 6″ westInception
1824Height
9.8 feet (3 metres)Open location code
9C3XJXPX+G9OpenStreetMap ID
node 5714876747OpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorialOpenStreetMap feature
man_made=obeliskWikidata ID
Q26318657
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Highlights include Pole Hill and Saint Francis Church of England.
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