Milestone at Hanging Shaw is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1987. Milestone.
Milestone at Hanging Shaw
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-belfry-thunder
- 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
- Address
- Milestone at Hanging Shaw, B6277, Forest and Frith
- OS grid reference
- NY 866 298
- Coordinates
- 54.66351, -2.20815
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The milestone at Hanging Shaw is a Grade II listed structure, likely dating from around 1830 and commissioned by the London Lead Company. It is made of painted ashlar and stands approximately 0.6 metres high, featuring a chamfered round top. The front of the milestone has the inscriptions "ALSTON 16" and "MIDDLETON 6" incised and painted in Roman capitals.
Local climate
Milestone at Hanging Shaw sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% 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 70 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 49 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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