Milestone Approximately 300 Metres North of Prince of Wales Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Barnsley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 July 1986. Milepost.
Milestone Approximately 300 Metres North of Prince of Wales Public House
- WRENN ID
- guardian-gutter-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Barnsley
- Constituency
- Penistone and Stocksbridge MP: Dr Marie Tidball (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 July 1986
- Type
- Milepost
- OS grid reference
- SE 184 047
- Coordinates
- 53.53877, -1.72237
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This milestone, located approximately 300 metres north of the Prince of Wales Public House in Hepworth, dates from the late 19th century. It features a cast-iron triangular front with a rounded top, mounted on a stone post. The raised letters on the milestone indicate directions and distances, reading: "NEW MILL DISTRICT ROAD HEPWORTH HUDDERSFIELD SHEFFIELD 9½ MILES 17 MILES."
Local climate
Milestone Approximately 300 Metres North of Prince of Wales Public House 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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