Pillar Box Outside Walkford Sub Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 October 1988. Post box.
Pillar Box Outside Walkford Sub Post Office
- WRENN ID
- under-postern-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Constituency
- Christchurch MP: Sir Christopher Chope (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 October 1988
- Type
- Post box
- Address
- Pillar Box Outside Walkford Sub Post Office, Ringwood Road, Highcliffe and Walkford
- OS grid reference
- SZ 214 945
- Coordinates
- 50.75016, -1.69722
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pillar box located outside Walkford Sub Post Office, manufactured around 1936 by Carron Co Ltd. It is made of cast iron, painted red with a black base. The cylindrical box features a base with the Edward VIII cipher and crown, collection-time panels both below and above the horizontal letter slit, a cornice, and a shallow-domed dentilled cap with a crescent supporting plate indicating the direction of the Post Office. A stamp dispensing machine is fixed to the side. This pillar box is one of fewer than 100 Edward VIII boxes still remaining in the country and is a well-preserved example.
Local climate
Pillar Box Outside Walkford Sub Post Office receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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