Milestone on South Side Outside Kingsdown Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 July 1985. Milestone.

Milestone on South Side Outside Kingsdown Farm

WRENN ID
grey-soffit-moon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 July 1985
Type
Milestone
Address
Milestone on South Side Outside Kingsdown Farm, Kingsdown Road, Box
OS grid reference
ST 813 671
Coordinates
51.40276, -2.26949
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is an early 19th-century milestone located on the south side outside Kingsdown Farm. It features an attached cast-iron plaque that reads "The Bath Roads" with a pointing hand, indicating the distance to the Guildhall in Bath as 4 miles and 7 furlongs.

Local climate

Milestone on South Side Outside Kingsdown Farm receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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