Kirkstall Forge Milestone East of East Gateway is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. Milestone.

Kirkstall Forge Milestone East of East Gateway

WRENN ID
errant-sentry-solstice
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Leeds
Constituency
Leeds Central and Headingley MP: Alex Sobel (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Milestone
Address
Kirkstall Forge Milestone East of East Gateway, Abbey Road
OS grid reference
SE 253 364
Coordinates
53.82362, -1.61651
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a milestone located east of the east gateway to Kirkstall Forge, dated 1829 and made for the firm of Butler and Beecroft. It features a tall, slender, rusticated pyramid topped with a ball finial. An iron plaque on the milestone bears the inscription: 'TO LONDON 200 MILES S/ TO EDINBURGH 200 MILES N/ ERECTED A.D.1829/ B & B/ KIRKSTALL FORGE 1779/ LEEDS 3.3/4 MILES'.

Local climate

Kirkstall Forge Milestone East of East Gateway receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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