Milestone at Upavon Camp is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 June 1986. A Georgian Milestone.
Milestone at Upavon Camp
- WRENN ID
- distant-threshold-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- East Wiltshire MP: Danny Kruger (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 June 1986
- Type
- Milestone
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Milestone at Upavon Camp, A 342
- OS grid reference
- SU 155 547
- Coordinates
- 51.2915, -1.77795
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The milestone at Upavon Camp is located on the Upavon to Andover Turnpike and dates from the early 19th century. It is made of limestone and features a rectangular pillar with a hole on top. An applied cast-iron plate displays the distances to Devizes (11 miles), Everleigh (3 miles), and Andover (15 miles). The milestone was rediscovered and re-erected in 1985.
Local climate
Milestone at Upavon Camp receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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