Guide Post at Junction with Dyson Cote Lane is a Grade II listed building in the Barnsley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 July 1986. Guide post.

Guide Post at Junction with Dyson Cote Lane

WRENN ID
sheer-flue-dawn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Barnsley
Constituency
Penistone and Stocksbridge MP: Dr Marie Tidball (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 July 1986
Type
Guide post
Address
Guide Post at Junction with Dyson Cote Lane, Salter Hill Lane, Hunshelf
OS grid reference
SE 257 004
Coordinates
53.49986, -1.6128
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This guide post, dated 1734, is located at the junction with Dyson Cote Lane on Salter Hill Lane in Hunshelf. It is made of gritstone and has a hexagonal shape with a socket at the top. The sides of the guide post are inscribed with directional information, including distances to various locations: Barnsley and Pontefract, Wakefield and Leeds, Penistone, Huthersfield and Halifax, Woodhead and Mottram, Underbank and Bradfield, and Sheffield and Rotherham.

Local climate

Guide Post at Junction with Dyson Cote Lane receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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