Croston/Ulnes Walton Boundary Stone is a Grade II listed building in the Chorley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 December 2007. Boundary stone.
Croston/Ulnes Walton Boundary Stone
- WRENN ID
- open-loggia-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chorley
- Constituency
- South Ribble MP: Mr Paul Foster (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 December 2007
- Type
- Boundary stone
- Address
- Croston/Ulnes Walton Boundary Stone, Southport Road
- OS grid reference
- SD 504 188
- Coordinates
- 53.6642, -2.75201
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Croston/Ulnes Walton boundary stone is a boundary marker likely dating from the early to mid-19th century. It is made of dressed sandstone and has a triangular shape with a rounded top. The stone is painted white with black lettering and stands 0.7 meters high, 0.6 meters wide, and 0.25 meters thick.
The two chamfered side faces each feature a narrow carved horizontal central panel that would have originally displayed the now illegible parish names. Currently, modern upper case painted lettering shows "CROSTON" on the left face and "ULNES WALTON" on the right face. The rounded upper part of the stone is inscribed with the word "BOUNDARY" in upper case, located just below a centrally inscribed Ordnance Survey bench mark.
While the exact date of the stone's erection is unknown, it is shown in its current location on the Ordnance Survey First Edition map from 1894, as well as on later maps from 1910 and 1928. The boundary stone is designated at Grade II for its historical significance and its role in marking the boundary between the parishes of Croston and Ulnes Walton, despite some erosion of the original inscriptions.
Local climate
Croston/Ulnes Walton Boundary Stone sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,240 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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