Milepost Approximately 70 Metres East North East of the Three Horseshoes Public House is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. Milepost.
Milepost Approximately 70 Metres East North East of the Three Horseshoes Public House
- WRENN ID
- tangled-alcove-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Milepost
- OS grid reference
- TL 197 077
- Coordinates
- 51.75574, -0.26643
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a milepost located approximately 70 metres east-north-east of the Three Horseshoes public house, dating from around 1820. It is made of painted cast iron and has a triangular plan that is open at the back. The top is also triangular with a chamfered face below. It is inscribed with "HATFIELD 2" on the top, and on the right side, it reads "ST ALBANS 3" and "READING 48".
Local climate
Milepost Approximately 70 Metres East North East of the Three Horseshoes Public House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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 0.3°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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