Milestone About 400 Yards North of Crossroads is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1962. Milestone.
Milestone About 400 Yards North of Crossroads
- WRENN ID
- haunted-pier-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1962
- Type
- Milestone
- OS grid reference
- TL 438 498
- Coordinates
- 52.12845, 0.09983
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This milestone, located about 400 yards north of the crossroads on the west side of Cambridge Road, dates back to 1730. It is made of stone and painted white, featuring a square shape with a domed top. The milestone has black Roman lettering and numerals. Above the inscription, which reads "VI MILES TO CAMBRIDGE A.D. MDCCXXX," is the shield of arms of Trinity Hall College, Cambridge, along with a hand that has a pointing finger. This milestone is one of those established under a trust created from a bequest by Dr. Mowse, who was the Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, from 1552 to 1553, intended for the maintenance of highways in the Cambridge area.
Local climate
Milestone About 400 Yards North of Crossroads 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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