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
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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- No sale records on file
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