Bloodybush Pillar is a Grade II* listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 January 1988. Monument.
Bloodybush Pillar
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-doorway-hemlock
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 January 1988
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Bloodybush Pillar, Kielder
- OS grid reference
- NY 571 910
- Coordinates
- 55.2116, -2.67521
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bloodybush Pillar is an inscribed pillar dating from 1828, constructed from dressed stone. It stands approximately 15 feet high and features a battered square pier. On the east side, there is an inscription detailing the boundary between Northumberland and Roxburghshire, along with information about the property owners, Sir J.E. Swinburn and William Oliver Rutherford. The inscription also mentions a toll gate located near Oakenshaw Bridge, listing the toll rates for various animals and noting that these tolls are collected once a day. It warns that individuals who evade or refuse to pay the toll will be prosecuted for trespass. Additionally, the pillar provides distances to several locations, including Lewisburn Colliery, Mounces, Bellingham, Hexham, Dinlabyre, Castleton, Hawick, and Jedburgh.
Local climate
Bloodybush Pillar sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 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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