Milestone 130m SW of Council Barrow is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 October 2010. Milestone.
Milestone 130m SW of Council Barrow
- WRENN ID
- low-cloister-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 October 2010
- Type
- Milestone
- Address
- Milestone 130m SW of Council Barrow, A30, Cardinham
- OS grid reference
- SX 098 701
- Coordinates
- 50.50022, -4.68203
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a milestone located approximately 130 meters southwest of Council Barrow, dating from around 1835. It is made of stone and has a triangular shape with a sloping top, standing about 0.75 meters high. The milestone features inscriptions in a serif script, with "L/XIX" on the left side and "B/3" on the right, and the lettering is highlighted in black paint.
The milestone is situated on the A30, east of Helland Junction. It marks a turnpike route that was established following the 1769 Act of Parliament, which created the Bodmin Turnpike Trust. In 1835, the route was improved to bypass a steep gradient out of Bodmin at Castle Street, necessitating a new three-mile marker stone for the re-aligned route. Unlike the earlier round-headed milestones, this replacement stone is triangular, following the common practice of the time. An earlier milestone on the old road is still in place about half a mile away and is also listed as Grade II. The replacement milestone is shown on the first edition Ordnance Survey map from 1880.
This milestone is designated at Grade II due to its intact condition as an early 19th-century milestone that remains in its original location, and it has group value with other listed milestones along the turnpike route.
Local climate
Milestone 130m SW of Council Barrow sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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