Milestone 200 Metres South of Redwing Plantation 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 South of Redwing Plantation
- WRENN ID
- waning-moat-oak
- 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 844 318
- Coordinates
- 54.68171, -2.24267
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Milestone located 200 metres south of Redwing Plantation, likely dating from around 1830 and associated with the London Lead Company. It is made of painted ashlar and stands approximately 0.9 metres high, featuring a slightly chamfered round top. The front is inscribed with "ALSTON 14 MIDDLETON 8" in black Roman capitals, above an incised Ordnance Survey benchmark.
Local climate
Milestone 200 Metres South of Redwing Plantation 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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