Milestone at Road Junction 540 Metres North East of Higher Hodder Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Ribble Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1984. Milestone.
Milestone at Road Junction 540 Metres North East of Higher Hodder Bridge
- WRENN ID
- sacred-cobalt-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ribble Valley
- Constituency
- Ribble Valley MP: Maya Ellis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1984
- Type
- Milestone
- OS grid reference
- SD 702 413
- Coordinates
- 53.86791, -2.45459
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This milestone, dated 1766, is located at a road junction 540 metres north-east of Higher Hodder Bridge in Great Mitton. It is made of sandstone and has a square shape with a shaped top. The west face of the milestone displays the inscriptions: "To Preston 10M. To Gisburn M8". The north face reads: "To Lancaster 16M. To Whalley M3. IS (?) 1766".
Local climate
Milestone at Road Junction 540 Metres North East of Higher Hodder Bridge sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% 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 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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