Milestone Opposite to Drive Entrance to Rycliffe is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 July 1984. Milestone.
Milestone Opposite to Drive Entrance to Rycliffe
- WRENN ID
- ghost-forge-moss
- 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 to Drive Entrance to Rycliffe, Halifax Road, Ripponden
- OS grid reference
- SE 042 202
- Coordinates
- 53.6787, -1.93698
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This milestone, located opposite the drive entrance to Rycliffe, dates from the late 18th century. It is a small monolith featuring an arched top and two dressed faces. The left face is inscribed with "TO ROCHDALE" and the right face reads "HALIFAX 11 5 MILE."
Local climate
Milestone Opposite to Drive Entrance to Rycliffe 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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