Milestone Near the Corner of Milestone Lane is a Grade II listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 July 1982. Milestone.

Milestone Near the Corner of Milestone Lane

WRENN ID
crooked-doorway-fern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Birmingham
Constituency
Birmingham Perry Barr MP: Ayoub Khan (Ind)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 July 1982
Type
Milestone
Address
Milestone Near the Corner of Milestone Lane, Holyhead Road B21
OS grid reference
SP 038 897
Coordinates
52.50524, -1.94494
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This milestone, located near the corner of Milestone Lane on Holyhead Road, dates from around 1800. It is a simple stone structure with a rounded head. The stone is inscribed with the distances: '111 miles from London, 3 miles from Birmingham, and 10 miles to Wolverhampton'.

Local climate

Milestone Near the Corner of Milestone Lane receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% 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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