Milestone near Higher Bofarnel is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 2012. Milestone.
Milestone near Higher Bofarnel
- WRENN ID
- leaning-timber-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 April 2012
- Type
- Milestone
- OS grid reference
- SX 116 634
- Coordinates
- 50.44079, -4.65426
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This milestone, dating from around 1769, is a granite monolith. It has a rectangular shape with a rounded top and stands approximately 0.86 meters high. The stone shows traces of white paint and is inscribed with "4 / B" for Bodmin, with the lettering highlighted in black paint.
Local climate
Milestone near Higher Bofarnel sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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