Milepost Opposite Sunnyside is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. Milepost.
Milepost Opposite Sunnyside
- WRENN ID
- spare-latch-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Milepost
- Address
- Milepost Opposite Sunnyside, Old A1, Newton-On-The-Moor and Swarland
- OS grid reference
- NU 172 063
- Coordinates
- 55.35053, -1.72904
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a milepost located opposite Sunnyside in Newton-on-the-Moor, likely dating from the mid-19th century. It is made of cast iron and is painted white with black figures. The milepost has a triangular plan with an open back and features a raised inscription indicating the distances: 14 miles to Morpeth and 5 miles to Alnwick. It stands 0.85 meters tall.
Local climate
Milepost Opposite Sunnyside receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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