Milepost 200 Yards North of Bowsden Road End is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 May 1986. Milepost.

Milepost 200 Yards North of Bowsden Road End

WRENN ID
tall-thatch-ochre
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Northumberland
Constituency
North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 May 1986
Type
Milepost
OS grid reference
NU 000 418
Coordinates
55.67042, -2.00064
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a milepost located 200 yards north of the end of Bowsden Road, dating from the early to mid-19th century. It is made of cast iron and stands approximately 2 feet high. The milepost has a triangular shape with a rounded back and a canted top. One face is inscribed with "WR" for Wooler, "BER" for Berwick, and the top features "MOR" for Morpeth, indicating distances of 9 miles, 7 miles, and 40 miles respectively.

Local climate

Milepost 200 Yards North of Bowsden Road End receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% 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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