Footpath Guidepost 5 Metres North of Top Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1985. Guidepost.
Footpath Guidepost 5 Metres North of Top Lodge
- WRENN ID
- silent-shingle-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester North and Neston MP: Samantha Dixon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 October 1985
- Type
- Guidepost
- OS grid reference
- SJ 331 733
- Coordinates
- 53.25309, -3.00412
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The footpath guidepost located 5 meters north of Top Lodge is a late 19th-century structure. It features a cast-iron, slightly tapering octagonal shaft set on a plinth. The shaft is inscribed in plain raised lettering with the text "WIRRAL FOOTPATHS ETC. PRESERVATION SOCIETY BY PERMISSION OF THE COUNCIL," and on the rear, it bears the maker's name, "W H SMITH & CO. WHITCHURCH." The guidepost has a moulded top with a ball finial and carries a single fingerplate with nicked corners that reads "PUBLIC FOOTPATH TO SHOTWICK KEEP TO THE PATH."
Local climate
Footpath Guidepost 5 Metres North of Top Lodge 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 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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