Greyhound Stone Approximately 300 Metres East of Junction with Hartcliff Hill Road is a Grade II listed building in the Barnsley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 July 1986. Boundary marker.
Greyhound Stone Approximately 300 Metres East of Junction with Hartcliff Hill Road
- WRENN ID
- leaning-tallow-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Barnsley
- Constituency
- Penistone and Stocksbridge MP: Dr Marie Tidball (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 July 1986
- Type
- Boundary marker
- OS grid reference
- SE 227 017
- Coordinates
- 53.51196, -1.65803
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Greyhound Stone is a boundary marker located approximately 300 metres east of the junction with Hartcliff Hill Road in Langsett. Its date is uncertain but it is probably medieval. The stone is made of sandstone and features a rectangular shape with an elliptical panel that has a bas-relief of a running greyhound. Above this, there are later inscribed initials that read 'M W P'. The stone is built into a dry-stone wall.
Historical records mention the stone in relation to the boundaries of the parish of Thurlstone during the time of Henry VIII and again in 1695 for Langsett. It is also referenced in the Enclosure Act of 1814 concerning the parishes of Penistone, Langsett, and Thurlstone. It is believed that the stone was moved between 1816 and 1820 to mark the boundaries of William Payne and Lord Melbourne, with Payne purchasing the manor of Langsett from Lord Melbourne in 1814. It has been suggested by Dransfield that the initials 'M W P' refer to these names and were added during this period. In 1984, the stone was returned to its original site as documented in the 1814 records.
Local climate
Greyhound Stone Approximately 300 Metres East of Junction with Hartcliff Hill Road 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 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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