Direction Stone is a Grade II listed building in the Bury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1985. Direction stone.
Direction Stone
- WRENN ID
- tilted-pillar-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bury
- Constituency
- Bury North MP: Mr James Frith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1985
- Type
- Direction stone
- Address
- Direction Stone, Crostons Road
- OS grid reference
- SD 796 111
- Coordinates
- 53.59659, -2.30937
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Direction Stone, dated 1834, is located at the junction with Tottington Road. It is made of painted stone and stands about 4 feet high, with a roughly square shape and a segmental head on each face. Two of its faces are inscribed with place names and have outlines of directional hands set within oval frames.
Local climate
Direction Stone sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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