Milestone is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. Milestone.

Milestone

WRENN ID
spare-bastion-ebony
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
Country
England
Type
Milestone
Address
Milestone, B3082, Tarrant Rawston
OS grid reference
ST 918 061
Coordinates
50.85508, -2.11732
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This milestone, likely from the 19th century, is made of stone and features a rounded top and face. It is inscribed with the distances to Blandford (2 miles) and Wimborne (7 miles). The milestone was originally erected by the Blandford and Wimborne Trust.

Local climate

Milestone receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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