Milepost Half A Mile East of Whissendine Station is a Grade II listed building in the Melton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 January 1988. Milepost.
Milepost Half A Mile East of Whissendine Station
- WRENN ID
- ragged-grate-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Melton
- Constituency
- Melton and Syston MP: Edward Argar (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 January 1988
- Type
- Milepost
- Address
- Milepost Half A Mile East of Whissendine Station, Cordhill Lane, Wymondham
- OS grid reference
- SK 845 169
- Coordinates
- 52.7434, -0.74846
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a milepost located half a mile east of Whissendine Station, dating from the early 19th century. It is made of cast iron and features a round column with two panels. The panels are inscribed with the distances to Oakham, which is 7 and a half miles away, and Melton, which is 8 miles away. The conical cap of the milepost is inscribed with the name 'Edmondthorpe'.
Local climate
Milepost Half A Mile East of Whissendine Station sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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