Milestone on Holmbush Road is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 October 2010. Milestone.
Milestone on Holmbush Road
- WRENN ID
- haunted-loft-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Austell and Newquay MP: Noah Law (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 October 2010
- Type
- Milestone
- Address
- Milestone on Holmbush Road, St. Austell
- OS grid reference
- SX 034 524
- Coordinates
- 50.33887, -4.7633
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The milestone on Holmbush Road was built around 1764 for the St Austell and Lostwithiel Trust. Made of granite, it has a rectangular shape with a semi-circular top and stands approximately 0.90 meters high. The stone features inscriptions in Sans Serif capitals: "ST / AUSTEL / Ii / TRURO / XV," with the letters highlighted in black paint. The lower part of the front (south) face includes an inscribed benchmark.
The St Austell and Lostwithiel Trust was established by an Act of Parliament in 1761, and this milestone is one of several that were erected and maintained by the Trust. The distances marked on the milestones were calculated from the eight-mile stone at the end of the nearby Truro Turnpike Trust, which is why this milestone indicates a half-mile distance to St Austell.
This milestone is designated as Grade II because it is a clear and well-preserved example of a late 18th-century milestone that remains in its original location. It also holds group value with other listed milestones erected by the St Austell and Lostwithiel Trust, one of the earliest turnpike trusts in the county.
Local climate
Milestone on Holmbush Road receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% 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 0.3°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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