Milestone 500 Metres South of Three Barrows is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 April 1987. Milestone.
Milestone 500 Metres South of Three Barrows
- WRENN ID
- riven-latch-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 April 1987
- Type
- Milestone
- OS grid reference
- SU 054 672
- Coordinates
- 51.40426, -1.92248
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This 18th-century milestone is located 500 meters south of Three Barrows, on the northwest side of the A361 in Bishops Cannings. It is made of painted sarsen stone and features a triangular shaft with a hexagonal top and a square chamfered base. The milestone has painted inscriptions indicating distances: "84 miles to LONDON" on the top, "9 miles to MARLBRO" on the left, and "5 miles to DEVIZES" on the right.
Local climate
Milestone 500 Metres South of Three Barrows receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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