Milestone Adjacent to Western End of Road Bridge Parapet is a Grade II listed building in the Windsor and Maidenhead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 August 1983. Milestone.

Milestone Adjacent to Western End of Road Bridge Parapet

WRENN ID
worn-cupola-kestrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Windsor and Maidenhead
Constituency
Maidenhead MP: Mr Joshua Reynolds (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 August 1983
Type
Milestone
OS grid reference
SU 893 812
Coordinates
51.52355, -0.71351
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This milestone, dating from the 18th century, is made of stone and has been re-set. It features incised Roman lettering on its east face, indicating distances to Reading (13 miles), Bath (82 miles), Henley (9 miles), and Oxford (32 miles). The west face displays distances to Hyde Park Corner (26 miles) and Colnbrook (9 miles). At the base on the front, it is marked with "Cookham Parish."

Local climate

Milestone Adjacent to Western End of Road Bridge Parapet 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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