Pump in Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 July 1951. Pump.
Pump in Market Place
- WRENN ID
- roaming-parapet-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 July 1951
- Type
- Pump
- Address
- Pump in Market Place, Ampthill
- OS grid reference
- TL 034 381
- Coordinates
- 52.0319, -0.4929
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The pump in the Market Place is a stone obelisk set on a vermiculated plinth. It features an iron handle and spout for use as the Town Pump. At the top, there is an iron socket designed for a lamp, although the actual lamp is no longer present. The obelisk has distances engraved on each face, indicating the distance to significant towns in each direction. Additionally, an inscription runs around the base of the obelisk on all four faces, stating: "ERECTED BY/THE EARL OF/UPPER OSSORY/AD MDCCLXXXV. AM."
Local climate
Pump in Market Place sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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