Mile Post Opposite Beeson Mill Lane is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. Mile-post.

Mile Post Opposite Beeson Mill Lane

WRENN ID
roaming-cobalt-thistle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
St Albans
Constituency
Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
Country
England
Type
Mile-post
Address
Mile Post Opposite Beeson Mill Lane, Harpenden Town
OS grid reference
TL 138 120
Coordinates
51.79513, -0.35019
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Mile-post located opposite Beeson End Lane, dating from the mid-19th century. It was made by Brown and Green in Luton. The mile-post is a white-painted cast iron structure, triangular in shape and open at the back. It features two faces with raised Roman-style lettering indicating distances: 3 miles to St Albans and 7 miles to Luton. The top face shows a distance of 24 miles to London.

Local climate

Mile Post Opposite Beeson Mill 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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