Milepost Adjacent to Locks 47, Church Lawton Top Lock is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1987. Milepost.

Milepost Adjacent to Locks 47, Church Lawton Top Lock

WRENN ID
weathered-balcony-soot
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire East
Constituency
Congleton MP: Sarah Russell (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 March 1987
Type
Milepost
OS grid reference
SJ 819 560
Coordinates
53.10095, -2.27125
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a canal milepost located adjacent to Locks 47 at Church Lawton Top Lock, dated "R & D Stone 1819" on its shaft. The milepost is made of cast iron and is painted black and white. It has a circular shape with a moulded head and features embossed letters on two convex tablets that indicate distances: "Shardlow 64 miles" and "Preston Brook 28 miles." It was likely cast in the foundry of Rangeley and Dixon in Lichfield Street, Stone. The Trent and Mersey Canal, where this milepost is situated, was constructed between 1766 and 1777 by James Brindley and Hugh Henshall.

Local climate

Milepost Adjacent to Locks 47, Church Lawton Top Lock receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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