Nine Maidens is a Grade I listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 February 1967. A Early Bronze Age Monument.
Nine Maidens
- WRENN ID
- brooding-plaster-sorrel
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 February 1967
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Nine Maidens, St. Columb Major
- OS grid reference
- SW 936 675
- Coordinates
- 50.47171, -4.9093
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nine Maidens is an avenue of standing stones from the early Bronze Age, consisting of nine granite monoliths that stand between 5 and 6 feet tall. These roughly hewn stones extend over approximately 350 feet. It is designated as an ancient monument, numbered 90.
Local climate
Nine Maidens 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% 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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