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This Grade 2 listed milestone can be found on old maps going back to 1844. It would have originally been marked "Gloucester 4, Tewkesbury 6". It is on a bypassed loop of the main road (now a bridleway) and hidden in the hedge on the north side of the path. The milestone is recorded as GL_GLTW04 on the milestone database. The stone is very worn but a benchmark is just discernible on the top. This benchmark was established during the First primary levelling of England & Wales, and was levelled with a height of 39.7300 feet [12.1097 metres] above mean sea level (Liverpool datum). It was included on the Manchester to Gloucester levelling line. The surveyor's description was "No. 433. Mark on top of the 4th milestone from Gloucester ; 2.78 ft. above centre of road" (Public Abstract p.37).