Guide Post in Fork of Road Between Burnley Road and Widdop Road is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 December 1984. Guide-post.

Guide Post in Fork of Road Between Burnley Road and Widdop Road

WRENN ID
roaming-mortar-barley
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Calderdale
Constituency
Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 December 1984
Type
Guide-post
Address
Guide Post in Fork of Road Between Burnley Road and Widdop Road, Heptonstall
OS grid reference
SD 977 286
Coordinates
53.75463, -2.03542
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This guide post, located at the fork of the road between Burnley Road and Widdop Road, is likely from the late 18th century or early 19th century. It is a monolith with dressed faces. The south face is inscribed, as well as the northeast face, and both west faces feature inscriptions. The inscriptions indicate directions and distances: "TO BURNLY 11 Miles" with a hand pointing to the left, "TO COLNE 11 Miles" with a hand pointing to the right, "TO HALIFAX 8½ Miles," and "TO HEPTONSTALL ¾ Mile" with hands pointing left and right. Additionally, there is a bench mark at 929.58.

Local climate

Guide Post in Fork of Road Between Burnley Road and Widdop Road 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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