Milepost is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1986. Milepost.
Milepost
- WRENN ID
- hidden-bastion-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 May 1986
- Type
- Milepost
- Address
- Milepost, Shropshire Union Canal, Audlem
- OS grid reference
- SJ 658 434
- Coordinates
- 52.9873, -2.5096
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an early 19th-century cast iron milepost located on the Shropshire Union Canal in Audlem. It features a circular post with a domed top and a cambered plate. The plate is inscribed with the following information: "NANTWICH AUTHERLEY 6 MILES JUNCTION 33 MILES NORBURY JUNCTION 17½ MILES."
Local climate
Milepost receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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