Milestone 7 is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 December 2022. Milestone.
Milestone 7
- WRENN ID
- riven-tracery-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 December 2022
- Type
- Milestone
- OS grid reference
- NZ 135 669
- Coordinates
- 54.99711, -1.79019
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Milestone 7 is a military milestone erected between mid-1751 and 1758 as part of the military road connecting Newcastle to Carlisle, built in response to the second Jacobite Rising of 1745. It is made of sandstone and is located on the southern verge of the Military Road, which was formerly part of the B6318 and at one time a section of the A67. The stone pillar stands about one metre high and has a narrow rectangular section measuring approximately 30cm by 15cm, with a chamfered rounded upper surface. The face of the milestone features a roughly punched-tooled surface and is inscribed with the number '7', indicating the distance in miles from the west gate of Newcastle upon Tyne to this point in the mid-18th century. The rear of the pillar is obscured from view by a garden wall, which is not included in the listing.
Local climate
Milestone 7 receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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