Canal Milestone at Ngr 6626 7616 is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 August 1986. Milestone.
Canal Milestone at Ngr 6626 7616
- WRENN ID
- drifting-hammer-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Tatton MP: Esther McVey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 August 1986
- Type
- Milestone
- Address
- Canal Milestone at Ngr 6626 7616, Trent and Mersey Canal, Marston
- OS grid reference
- SJ 662 761
- Coordinates
- 53.28138, -2.50736
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a canal milestone located on the south side of the Trent & Mersey Canal in Marston, dating from 1814. It is made of cast iron and features a circular post with a curved plate. The plate is inscribed in raised Roman capitals with the distances to Shardlow (84 miles) and Preston Brook (8 miles). The milestone was restored in 1977, and the initials T&MCS 1977 are inscribed on a raised quatrefoil on the post.
Local climate
Canal Milestone at Ngr 6626 7616 sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% 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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