Milestone About 100 Yards South East of Turn to Bar Hill is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. Milestone.
Milestone About 100 Yards South East of Turn to Bar Hill
- WRENN ID
- sharp-chalk-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Milestone
- OS grid reference
- TL 387 636
- Coordinates
- 52.25382, 0.03158
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This milestone, located about 100 yards southeast of the turn to Bar Hill, dates from the 19th century and is made of cast iron. It has a triangular shape and is situated in the parish of Oakington. The milestone indicates distances of "3½ miles Cambridge" and "Godmanchester 11 miles."
Local climate
Milestone About 100 Yards South East of Turn to Bar Hill 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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