Guidepost is a Grade II listed building in the Blackburn with Darwen local planning authority area, England. Guidepost.

Guidepost

WRENN ID
carved-column-sparrow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Blackburn with Darwen
Constituency
Rossendale and Darwen MP: Andy MacNae (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Guidepost
Address
Guidepost, Stones Bank Road, North Turton
OS grid reference
SD 699 166
Coordinates
53.6451, -2.45594
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Guidepost at the north-west corner of the junction of three branches of Stones Bank Road, probably from the early 19th century. This rectangular stone post is approximately half a metre high and features round-topped faces with an intersecting rounded head. The front, left, and right sides have incised finger pointers and are lettered: "TO BOLTON," "TO DARWEN," "TO BOLTON AND BLACKBURN," and "TO BELMONT AND CHORLEY."

Local climate

Guidepost sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 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 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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