Take Off Stone Approximately 250 Metres South of Junction with Mossley Road is a Grade II listed building in the Barnsley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 July 1986. Marker stone.
Take Off Stone Approximately 250 Metres South of Junction with Mossley Road
- WRENN ID
- muted-lintel-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Barnsley
- Constituency
- Penistone and Stocksbridge MP: Dr Marie Tidball (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 July 1986
- Type
- Marker stone
- OS grid reference
- SE 246 006
- Coordinates
- 53.50181, -1.63027
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Take-off stone located approximately 250 metres south of the junction with Mossley Road is a late 18th-century marker stone. It is a stone post with a rounded top featuring well-crafted incised letters that read 'Take Off'. Below this inscription is an Ordnance Survey bench mark. The stone is set into a dry-stone wall and is positioned at the top of the steep Mortimer Road, which was established following an Act passed in 1770. The road, constructed by Mr. Mortimer, did not meet the necessary standards for toll enforcement. Consequently, Langsett township, responsible for maintaining the road, provided a horse to assist wagons up the hill, and at the stone, the horse was 'taken-off' to return to the bottom.
Local climate
Take Off Stone Approximately 250 Metres South of Junction with Mossley Road 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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