Milepost is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 November 1984. Milepost.
Milepost
- WRENN ID
- dusk-rafter-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Tatton MP: Esther McVey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1984
- Type
- Milepost
- Address
- Milepost, Holmes Chapel Road, Toft
- OS grid reference
- SJ 761 754
- Coordinates
- 53.27569, -2.3593
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Milepost, dating from around 1830. It is made of cast iron and features a round post topped with a domed finial. The curved plate displays the following distances: Holmes Chapel 6 miles, Knutsford 2 miles, Brereton Green 8 miles, Altrincham 9 miles, Church Lawton 14½ miles, Manchester 17 miles, and Newcastle 21 miles.
Local climate
Milepost sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% 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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