Mile Post, to North West of Spread Eagle Public House is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. Milestone.
Mile Post, to North West of Spread Eagle Public House
- WRENN ID
- fallow-gateway-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Milestone
- Address
- Mile Post, to North West of Spread Eagle Public House, Cambridge Road, Croxton
- OS grid reference
- TL 244 600
- Coordinates
- 52.22489, -0.18001
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a 19th-century mile post located to the northwest of the Spread Eagle Public House on Cambridge Road in Croxton. It is made of cast iron and features a triangular shape with a chamfered top. The mile post is painted white, with black letters in relief indicating distances: 14 miles to Cambridge, 4 miles to St Neots, and 75 miles to Oxford.
Local climate
Mile Post, to North West of Spread Eagle Public House 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 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.4°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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