Guide Post at Junction with Old Shaw Lane is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 December 1984. Guide post.
Guide Post at Junction with Old Shaw Lane
- WRENN ID
- late-soffit-jay
- 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 at Junction with Old Shaw Lane, Badger Lane, Blackshaw
- OS grid reference
- SD 958 275
- Coordinates
- 53.74473, -2.06397
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The guide post at the junction with Old Shaw Lane is an early 19th-century monolith featuring a pointed head. It has directional inscriptions on both the front and back faces. The south face indicates distances to Hebden Bridge (2½ miles), Hardcastle Crags (2½ miles), and Burnley (10 miles), while the north face shows the distance to London (206 miles). Three hands on the post point to the right, and additional hands point to the right and left.
Local climate
Guide Post at Junction with Old Shaw Lane sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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