Footpath Guidepost 120 Metres South of Axes Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 August 1985. Guidepost.
Footpath Guidepost 120 Metres South of Axes Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- leaning-bronze-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester North and Neston MP: Samantha Dixon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 August 1985
- Type
- Guidepost
- OS grid reference
- SJ 392 725
- Coordinates
- 53.24653, -2.9114
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The footpath guidepost, located 120 meters south of Axes Farmhouse, dates from the late 19th century. It is an octagonal cast-iron post featuring a plinth, a moulded cap, and a ball finial. The finger plate, which has nicked corners, displays a raised inscription that reads: "WIRRAL FOOTPATH ETC SOCIETY PUBLIC FOOTPATH TO WHITBY ROAD PLEASE KEEP TO PATH with BY PERMISSION OF THE COUNCIL."
The National Footpath Preservation Society, established in 1884 under the patronage of the Duke of Westminster and others, likely oversaw the erection of this guidepost and similar examples throughout the Wirral shortly thereafter.
Local climate
Footpath Guidepost 120 Metres South of Axes Farmhouse 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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