Milestone Approximately 5 Metres East of Junction with Mortimer Road is a Grade II listed building in the Sheffield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 July 1986. A Late C19 Milestone.
Milestone Approximately 5 Metres East of Junction with Mortimer Road
- WRENN ID
- little-thatch-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sheffield
- Constituency
- Penistone and Stocksbridge MP: Dr Marie Tidball (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 July 1986
- Type
- Milestone
- OS grid reference
- SK 236 997
- Coordinates
- 53.49434, -1.6445
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This milestone, located approximately 5 metres east of the junction with Mortimer Road, dates from the late 19th century. It is made of stone with a cast-iron front. The milestone features a round top and a triangular front. The raised letters indicate the directions and distances to various locations: Wadsley & Langsett, Sheffield Road, Langsett, Huddersfield (14 ½ miles), and Sheffield (12 miles), with Holmfirth noted as being 9 miles away.
Local climate
Milestone Approximately 5 Metres East of Junction with Mortimer 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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