Milestone, 12 Yards South of the Old Gatehouse is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 August 1984. Milestone.
Milestone, 12 Yards South of the Old Gatehouse
- WRENN ID
- bitter-grate-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 August 1984
- Type
- Milestone
- OS grid reference
- TR 032 466
- Coordinates
- 51.1829, 0.90737
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This 18th-century milestone is located 12 yards south of The Old Gatehouse on the west side of Canterbury Road in Boughton Aluph. It is made of stone and features a cast iron panel. The inscription on the milestone indicates that Canterbury is 11 miles away and Ashford is 3 miles away. It is situated just 5 yards from an 18th-century toll house and booth.
Local climate
Milestone, 12 Yards South of the Old Gatehouse 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 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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