Milestone in Road Verge Opposite Number 179 is a Grade II listed building in the Brentwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1994. Milestone.
Milestone in Road Verge Opposite Number 179
- WRENN ID
- winter-storey-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brentwood
- Constituency
- Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1994
- Type
- Milestone
- Address
- Milestone in Road Verge Opposite Number 179, Chelmsford Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 617 963
- Coordinates
- 51.64297, 0.33589
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This milestone, located in the road verge opposite number 179 on Chelmsford Road in Shenfield, dates from the 18th century and is made of limestone. It has a square shape and is angled towards the road, with the southeast edge chamfered at the top to create an inclined surface that is inscribed with "London XX." The north face bears the inscription "XX miles from London," which now faces away from the road. The west face features an Ordnance Survey benchmark. The milestone has a crack approximately 0.35 meters from the top that has been cemented. It measures 0.28 meters square and stands 0.73 meters above the ground. The road between Shenfield and Ingatestone was one of the first in Essex to be turnpiked under an Act of 1695. Cast-iron cover plates were introduced in 1819 to minimize the costs of re-cutting inscriptions, indicating that this milestone is significantly older, having been inscribed, turned, and inscribed again prior to 1819.
Local climate
Milestone in Road Verge Opposite Number 179 sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 660 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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