Milepost 30 Metres South of Junction with Ormonde Road is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 July 1998. Milepost.
Milepost 30 Metres South of Junction with Ormonde Road
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester North and Neston MP: Samantha Dixon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 July 1998
- Type
- Milepost
- OS grid reference
- SJ 403 678
- Coordinates
- 53.20459, -2.89421
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This milepost, located 30 metres south of the junction with Ormonde Road, dates from around 1900 and is made of cast iron. It features a plinthed, tapered octagonal post that supports a shaped cast-iron plate. The plate is inscribed in raised capitals with the words "CHESTER CROSS: 1 MILE". Similar mileposts were installed by Chester City Council on other main access roads leading to Chester.
Local climate
Milepost 30 Metres South of Junction with Ormonde Road receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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