Milestone 200 Metres East of Track to Stanhope Gate is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1987. Milestone.
Milestone 200 Metres East of Track to Stanhope Gate
- WRENN ID
- high-corridor-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1987
- Type
- Milestone
- OS grid reference
- NY 961 255
- Coordinates
- 54.62463, -2.06146
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This milestone, located 200 metres east of the track to Stanhope Gate in Middleton in Teesdale, dates from the early 19th century. It is made of painted ashlar and stands approximately 0.8 metres high with a low domed pyramidal top. The milestone is set diagonally to the road, featuring the inscriptions "EDGE 8½" on the west face and "MIDN 1½" on the east face.
Local climate
Milestone 200 Metres East of Track to Stanhope Gate sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 39 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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