Old Milestone About 650 Yards South East from Red Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1972. Milestone.

Old Milestone About 650 Yards South East from Red Cross

WRENN ID
steep-flint-larch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cambridge
Constituency
South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 November 1972
Type
Milestone
OS grid reference
TL 476 549
Coordinates
52.17296, 0.15775
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Milestone, located about 650 yards southeast from Red Cross, is a square stone approximately 2 feet high that features a bench mark. The inscription on the stone is illegible. The roadway it stands on was originally Roman but was rebuilt at the request of William Wort, who died in 1709, suggesting that the milestone may date from that time.

Local climate

Old Milestone About 650 Yards South East from Red Cross 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 92% 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 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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