Guide Post on Traffic Island at Junction with Long Lane 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 Long Lane
- WRENN ID
- still-rafter-rain
- 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 Long Lane, Pontefract Road, Ackworth
- OS grid reference
- SE 444 180
- Coordinates
- 53.65719, -1.32961
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This guide post, located on a traffic island at the junction with Long Lane, dates back to 1827 and is made of sandstone, with some parts rendered. It has an octagonal shape and stands approximately 3 metres high. The base consists of two chamfered blocks, leading to a tapered column topped with a large triangular cap that features a ball finial. Atop the finial is a small cup-shaped iron bracket with a spur. The year "1827" is inscribed on the top of the west side of the column. The cap has painted lettering and finger pointers indicating directions: Pontefract 2½, Barnsley 10 (on the west side), Darrington 3, York 29 (on the north-east side), Sheffield 13, and East Hardwick 2½ (on the south-east side).
Local climate
Guide Post on Traffic Island at Junction with Long Lane receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% 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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