Milestone at Slipper Hill is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 May 1989. A Victorian Milestone.
Milestone at Slipper Hill
- WRENN ID
- deep-doorway-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 May 1989
- Type
- Milestone
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Milestone at Slipper Hill, North Hill
- OS grid reference
- SX 285 788
- Coordinates
- 50.58398, -4.42279
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The milestone at Slipper Hill is a mid-19th century milestone made of painted granite. It has a rectangular shape with a triangular head. The inscription on the milestone reads 'Launceston 5, Liskeard 10 lll', indicating distances of 5 miles to Launceston and 10 miles to Liskeard.
Local climate
Milestone at Slipper Hill sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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