Milepost Opposite Moreton End Lane is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. Milepost.
Milepost Opposite Moreton End Lane
- WRENN ID
- blind-trefoil-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Milepost
- Address
- Milepost Opposite Moreton End Lane, Luton Road, Harpenden Town
- OS grid reference
- TL 129 149
- Coordinates
- 51.82207, -0.36223
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This milepost, located opposite Moreton End Lane in Harpenden, dates from the mid-19th century and was made by Brown and Green in Luton. It is constructed from white-painted cast iron and features raised blue Roman-style lettering. The milepost has a triangular shape and is open at the back. The chamfered top face displays the distance to London as 26 miles, while the left side indicates St Albans is 5 miles away, and the right side shows Luton is also 5 miles away.
Local climate
Milepost Opposite Moreton End Lane sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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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