Village Stocks is a Grade II listed building in the Blackburn with Darwen local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1967. Stocks.
Village Stocks
- WRENN ID
- hushed-keep-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Constituency
- Rossendale and Darwen MP: Andy MacNae (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1967
- Type
- Stocks
- Address
- Village Stocks, High Street, North Turton
- OS grid reference
- SD 732 158
- Coordinates
- 53.6384, -2.40554
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The village stocks, located on High Street in Chapeltown, are likely from the 18th or 19th century. They feature stone side supports and wooden beams with two leg holes, but no bench is present. The stocks may have been relocated from their original position.
Local climate
Village Stocks sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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