Milestone About 120 Metres North East of Drive to the Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 February 1988. Milestone.

Milestone About 120 Metres North East of Drive to the Old Rectory

WRENN ID
stark-shingle-lake
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 February 1988
Type
Milestone
OS grid reference
ST 837 843
Coordinates
51.55758, -2.23553
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This milestone, located about 120 metres northeast of the drive to the Old Rectory on Sherston Road in Luckington, is possibly from the 18th century. It features a 19th-century cast-iron plate that displays the distances to Bristol (20 miles) and Malmesbury (7 miles) in raised capital letters. The milestone is positioned approximately 4 metres back from the road.

Local climate

Milestone About 120 Metres North East of Drive to the Old Rectory 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 50% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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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