Milepost 60 Metres South of Entrance to High Learchild is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 August 1987. Milepost.
Milepost 60 Metres South of Entrance to High Learchild
- WRENN ID
- ancient-wicket-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 August 1987
- Type
- Milepost
- OS grid reference
- NU 094 102
- Coordinates
- 55.38627, -1.85304
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a milepost located 60 metres south of the entrance to High Learchild, likely dating from the early 20th century and produced by Smith Patterson Ltd. of Blaydon. It is made of cast iron and painted white with black figures. The milepost features a shield-shaped plaque that displays the distances to Cornhill (26 miles) and Morpeth (18 miles), set on a circular shaft. Additionally, there is a lower rectangular plate indicating the distance to Wooler (13 miles). The overall height of the milepost is 0.6 metres.
Local climate
Milepost 60 Metres South of Entrance to High Learchild receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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