Milestone Number 8, South of Newton Parish Boundary is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. Milestone.
Milestone Number 8, South of Newton Parish Boundary
- WRENN ID
- grey-pedestal-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Milestone
- Address
- Milestone Number 8, South of Newton Parish Boundary, Cambridge Lane, Foxton
- OS grid reference
- TL 428 469
- Coordinates
- 52.10278, 0.08401
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Milestone Number 8, located south of the Newton parish boundary, is a Grade II listed milestone. It is a carved limestone block that has been painted white with black inscriptions. The milestone features a crescent in a shield with the inscription 'VIII MILES TO CAMBRIDGE' and includes a pointing finger. This milestone is one of sixteen that were placed along the old Cambridge to London road, established by William Warren between 1727 and 1732, following the bequest of Dr. William Mowse, who was Master of Trinity Hall from 1552 to 1553, for the maintenance of roads in the Cambridge area.
Local climate
Milestone Number 8, South of Newton Parish Boundary 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 93% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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