Milestone West of Mans Head is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. Milestone.
Milestone West of Mans Head
- WRENN ID
- unlit-mortar-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- East Wiltshire MP: Danny Kruger (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Milestone
- Address
- Milestone West of Mans Head, Marlborough to Broad Hinton Road, Preshute
- OS grid reference
- SU 136 742
- Coordinates
- 51.46672, -1.80513
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Milestone located west of Mans Head, dating from the early 19th century. It is made of sarsen stone and features a painted front. The milestone has a half-cylindrical shape with a grooved top. There is an incised and painted inscription on the left side that reads "TO WOOTTON BASSETT 7 Miles" and on the right side "TO MARLBRO 5 Miles." A bench mark is present on the base. The road it marks was turnpiked in 1809.
Local climate
Milestone West of Mans Head receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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