Milestone Near Junction with Fenhouses Drove is a Grade II listed building in the Boston local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 April 1988. Milestone.
Milestone Near Junction with Fenhouses Drove
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-chapel-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Boston
- Constituency
- Boston and Skegness MP: Richard Tice (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 April 1988
- Type
- Milestone
- Address
- Milestone Near Junction with Fenhouses Drove, Boston Road, Swineshead
- OS grid reference
- TF 255 418
- Coordinates
- 52.95938, -0.13175
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a milestone from the early 19th century, located near the junction with Fenhouses Drove on the north side of Boston Road in Swineshead. It is made of painted ashlar and has a square plan with a pyramidal top. The milestone is inscribed with the distances to Boston, which is 5 miles away, and Sleaford, which is 13 miles away.
Local climate
Milestone Near Junction with Fenhouses Drove sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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