Guide Post on Traffic Island at Junction with Station Road is a Grade II* listed building in the Wakefield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1968. Guide post.

Guide Post on Traffic Island at Junction with Station Road

WRENN ID
gilded-groin-claret
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Wakefield
Constituency
Normanton and Hemsworth MP: Jon Trickett (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 March 1968
Type
Guide post
Address
Guide Post on Traffic Island at Junction with Station Road, Barnsley Road, Ackworth
OS grid reference
SE 442 172
Coordinates
53.64963, -1.33266
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The guide post located on the traffic island at the junction with Station Road in Low Ackworth is a notable structure dated 1805, positioned on the east side of Barnsley Road. This guide post is made of sandstone and has a hexagonal shape, standing approximately 3 meters high. It features banded rustication, a straight-sided pedestal, and a tapered column topped with a large triangular cap. The inscriptions on all sides include directional finger-pointers indicating distances to Pontefract (3 miles), Hemsworth (3 miles), East Hardwick (3 miles), Snaith (15 miles), Wentbridge (3 miles), and Doncaster (13 miles). The cap is now adorned with an ornamental wrought iron stand that supports three lamps.

Local climate

Guide Post on Traffic Island at Junction with Station Road receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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