Milestone is a Grade II listed building in the Derbyshire Dales local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 1974. Milestone.
Milestone
- WRENN ID
- quartered-beam-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Derbyshire Dales
- Constituency
- Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 February 1974
- Type
- Milestone
- Address
- Milestone, Market Place, Ashbourne
- OS grid reference
- SK 180 468
- Coordinates
- 53.01828, -1.73232
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a 19th-century cast iron milestone located against the wall of No 20 on the north-east side of Market Place. It provides distances to London and Manchester, dating back to when the main road to London passed through Ashbourne. The milestone is part of a group of listed buildings in Market Place.
Local climate
Milestone receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% 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 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% 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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