Milepost is a Grade II* listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 October 1983. Monument.
Milepost
- WRENN ID
- muted-truss-winter
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 October 1983
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Milepost, Great North Road (Central Reservation), Alconbury Weston
- OS grid reference
- TL 186 781
- Coordinates
- 52.38836, -0.25823
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a milepost dating from around 1770, made of coursed squared limestone and featuring a square plan. The exterior includes a double stepped plinth course and an overhanging moulded cornice at the top. A ball finial on a baluster plinth was replaced in 1982. The north and west faces have inscriptions with shallow sunk pointing hands. The north face reads: "To London 64 miles through Huntingdon Royston & Ware; To Huntingdon 15 miles; To London 72 miles through Cambridge; To Cambridge 21 miles; To Stilton 7 miles." The west face states: "To London 68 miles through Buckden Biggleswade & Hatfield; To Buckden 7 miles; To Stilton 7 miles." Surrounding the milepost are low wrought-iron railings with circular section verticals and spear-head finials, which pass through a plain-section top rail. Originally located at the junction of the Great North Road (A1) and Ermine Street, the milepost was moved to the central reservation in 1955 when the dual carriageway was built, and it now stands on the west side of the old south-bound carriageway, which was widened to the west in 1998.
Local climate
Milepost sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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