Milestone on North East Side of Junction with Bank Lane is a Grade II listed building in the Barnsley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1986. Milestone.

Milestone on North East Side of Junction with Bank Lane

WRENN ID
gaunt-railing-soot
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Barnsley
Constituency
Penistone and Stocksbridge MP: Dr Marie Tidball (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 December 1986
Type
Milestone
Address
Milestone on North East Side of Junction with Bank Lane, Woodhead Road, Wortley
OS grid reference
SK 310 976
Coordinates
53.47449, -1.53331
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This milestone, located on the north-east side of the junction with Bank Lane, dates from the late 18th century and is made of gritstone. It is a square pillar that stands approximately 0.75 meters high. Each face of the milestone features inscriptions indicating the distances to various towns: Rotherham 8 miles, Huddersfield 15 miles, Manchester 26 miles, and Sheffield 7 miles.

Local climate

Milestone on North East Side of Junction with Bank Lane receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% 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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