Milepost at Ngr Nz 1429667 is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 January 1986. Milepost.
Milepost at Ngr Nz 1429667
- WRENN ID
- outer-oriel-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 January 1986
- Type
- Milepost
- Address
- Milepost at Ngr Nz 1429667, A 697, Longhorsley
- OS grid reference
- NZ 142 966
- Coordinates
- 55.26391, -1.77719
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a milepost, likely from the early 20th century, made by Smith Paterson Ltd. of Blaydon. It is constructed from cast iron and painted white and black. The milepost features a shield-shaped plaque displaying the distances to Cornhill (36 miles) and Morpeth (8 miles), set on a circular shaft. Below this, there is a lower rectangular plaque indicating Wooler (23 miles) and a maker's plate underneath. The overall height of the milepost is 0.9 metres.
Local climate
Milepost at Ngr Nz 1429667 receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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