Milestone on Verge at Junction with Haseldine Road is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. Milestone.
Milestone on Verge at Junction with Haseldine Road
- WRENN ID
- over-mortar-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Milestone
- Address
- Milestone on Verge at Junction with Haseldine Road, High Street, London Colney
- OS grid reference
- TL 178 041
- Coordinates
- 51.72393, -0.29589
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This milestone is an early 18th-century stone post located on the verge at the junction with Haseldine Road in London Colney. It features inscriptions on the rear and northern sides, with a mid-19th century cast iron plaque attached to the roadside. The rear inscription reads: '18 miles from London ... Furlongs ... Poles from St Albans'. The inscription on the northern side is weathered, while the roadside inscription states: 'London 18, Barnet 7, St Albans 2'.
Local climate
Milestone on Verge at Junction with Haseldine Road sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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