Milestone opposite the Golden Lion Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 July 1984. Milestone.
Milestone opposite the Golden Lion Inn
- WRENN ID
- hushed-basalt-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Calderdale
- Constituency
- Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 July 1984
- Type
- Milestone
- Address
- Milestone opposite the Golden Lion Inn, Elland Road, Ripponden
- OS grid reference
- SE 039 198
- Coordinates
- 53.67484, -1.94111
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a milestone from the late 18th century, located opposite the Golden Lion Inn on Elland Road in Ripponden. The milestone is a monolith with two dressed faces. The left face displays the inscription: "TO / HALIFAX / 5 / MILES / TO / ... / 10/ MILES." The right face has an incomplete inscription: "TO / ... / ... / ... / TO / ... / MILES."
Local climate
Milestone opposite the Golden Lion Inn sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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