Milestone Approximately 1 Metre South of Angier's Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1988. Milestone.

Milestone Approximately 1 Metre South of Angier's Almshouses

WRENN ID
lone-cellar-scarlet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Oxfordshire
Constituency
Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 February 1988
Type
Milestone
OS grid reference
SU 606 890
Coordinates
51.59691, -1.12526
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This milestone, dating from the 18th century, is located approximately 1 meter south of Angier's Almshouses on Reading Road in Wallingford. It has been resited in its original position around 1986. The milestone is made of stone and features a half-circular shape with an angled top. It is inscribed with the distances to Oxford (13 miles) and Reading (15 miles).

Local climate

Milestone Approximately 1 Metre South of Angier's Almshouses 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 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% 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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