Mile Post at Junctions with Fen Drayton and Conington Roads is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. Milestone.
Mile Post at Junctions with Fen Drayton and Conington Roads
- WRENN ID
- scattered-forge-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Milestone
- Address
- Mile Post at Junctions with Fen Drayton and Conington Roads, Cambridge Road
- OS grid reference
- TL 334 673
- Coordinates
- 52.28771, -0.04539
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a mid-19th century mile post located at the junctions of Fen Drayton and Conington roads on the north side of Cambridge Road (A604) in Fen Drayton. It is made of cast iron and features inscriptions on each of its three faces, indicating distances to Godmanchester (6 miles), Cambridge (8.5 miles), and Fen Drayton Parish. The mile post is painted black on a white background.
Local climate
Mile Post at Junctions with Fen Drayton and Conington Roads 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 98% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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