Milestone is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. Milestone.

Milestone

WRENN ID
fading-rood-auburn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Cambridgeshire
Constituency
South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
Country
England
Type
Milestone
Address
Milestone, 10, London Road, Fowlmere
OS grid reference
TL 417 442
Coordinates
52.07851, 0.06745
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Milestone No. 10 is an 18th-century carved limestone block, painted white with black inscriptions. It features a crescent in a shield inscribed with "X MILES To CAMBRIDGE," along with a pointing finger and defaced Roman numerals. This milestone is one of sixteen that were placed along the old Cambridge to London road, established by William Warren between 1727 and 1732 under the bequest of Dr. William Mowse, who was Master of Trinity Hall from 1552 to 1553, for the maintenance of roads in and around Cambridge.

Local climate

Milestone 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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