Milestone at Junction of London Road and Nevendon Road is a Grade II listed building in the Basildon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1990. A Late C18 Milestone.
Milestone at Junction of London Road and Nevendon Road
- WRENN ID
- upper-tallow-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Basildon
- Constituency
- Rayleigh and Wickford MP: Mr Mark Francois (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 June 1990
- Type
- Milestone
- Address
- Milestone at Junction of London Road and Nevendon Road, Wickford
- OS grid reference
- TQ 745 932
- Coordinates
- 51.61125, 0.51967
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Milestone located at the junction of London Road and Nevendon Road, dating from the late 18th century. It has a square stone plan, with the road-facing side inscribed with the distances: "To London 29 miles, Southend 12 miles, Rayleigh 5 miles, Billericay 6 miles." This milestone is part of a series documented on the Chapman and André map of 1777, which outlined the route from Romford, through Brentwood, Shenfield, Hutton, Billericay, Wickford, to Rayleigh and onward to Southend.
Local climate
Milestone at Junction of London Road and Nevendon Road 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 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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