Milestone C.470 Metres East of Folly Head is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. A C19 Milestone.
Milestone C.470 Metres East of Folly Head
- WRENN ID
- woven-kitchen-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Milestone
- OS grid reference
- NZ 015 231
- Coordinates
- 54.60312, -1.97722
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Milestone located approximately 470 metres east of Folly Head, likely dating from the early 19th century. It is made of painted ashlar and features a square tooled block about half a metre high, topped with a low domed pyramid. The milestone is set diagonally to the road, with tooled frames surrounding the inscriptions "EDGE 41/2" on the west side and "MIDN 5" on the east side.
Local climate
Milestone C.470 Metres East of Folly Head sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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