Milepost Beside Ford Castle West Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. Milepost.

Milepost Beside Ford Castle West Lodge

WRENN ID
brooding-tin-blackthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Northumberland
Constituency
North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 March 1988
Type
Milepost
Address
Milepost Beside Ford Castle West Lodge, B6353
OS grid reference
NT 939 374
Coordinates
55.6307, -2.09688
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a milepost located beside Ford Castle West Lodge, dating from the early to mid-19th century. It is made of cast iron and features an oval tablet with two oval facets mounted on a short post. One face of the milepost is inscribed with "BEL" (for Belford) and the other with "COR" (for Cornhill), indicating distances of 15 miles and 6 miles, respectively.

Local climate

Milepost Beside Ford Castle West Lodge receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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