Stone Guide Post is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 December 1955. Guide post.
Stone Guide Post
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-buttress-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 December 1955
- Type
- Guide post
- Address
- Stone Guide Post, North Newington Road, Wroxton
- OS grid reference
- SP 408 416
- Coordinates
- 52.07212, -1.40483
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This stone guide post, located on the west side of North Newington Road, dates back to 1686 and is classified as a Grade II listed structure. It has been partly renewed and features inscriptions that direct travelers to Banbury, Chipping Norton, London, and Stratford. The post is topped with a sundial and a ball finial, and it displays four carved, pointing fingers indicating the directions. The guide post stands approximately 3 meters high and was first provided by Mr. Fran. White in 1686.
Local climate
Stone Guide Post receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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