Milestone at Top of Lord's Hill is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 July 1986. Milestone.
Milestone at Top of Lord's Hill
- WRENN ID
- open-lime-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South West Wiltshire MP: Dr Andrew Murrison (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 July 1986
- Type
- Milestone
- Address
- Milestone at Top of Lord's Hill, Shaftsbury Road, Longbridge Deverill
- OS grid reference
- ST 888 383
- Coordinates
- 51.14408, -2.161
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Milestone at the top of Lord's Hill, dating from 1840, is a cast-iron pillar featuring a classical pedimented top and plinth. The lettering is in relief and reads: WARMINSTER/5/MILES/SHAFTESBURY/10/MILES. The initials C & M/W 1840 on the plinth indicate the Warminster ironfounders, Carson and Miller. This milestone is part of the radial turnpike system established around Warminster in 1726, with a series of cast-iron milestones produced around 1840, coinciding with a consolidation of the Turnpike Act.
Local climate
Milestone at Top of Lord's Hill receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% 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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