Hanging Stone is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1986. Boundary marker.
Hanging Stone
- WRENN ID
- lost-thatch-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bradford
- Constituency
- Pendle and Clitheroe MP: Jonathan Hinder (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 December 1986
- Type
- Boundary marker
- Address
- Hanging Stone, Keighley
- OS grid reference
- SD 971 382
- Coordinates
- 53.84073, -2.0452
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hanging Stone, located in Oakworth Moor, is likely a boundary marker from the 19th century. It is made of large millstone grit and leans at an angle of approximately 45 degrees. The top features a carved, projecting cross, and one side is inscribed with the words 'Hanging stone or Water Sheddles Cross'.
Local climate
Hanging Stone sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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