Drummer Boy's Post is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1988. Finger post.
Drummer Boy's Post
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-threshold-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1988
- Type
- Finger post
- Address
- Drummer Boy's Post, Old Salisbury Road, Market Lavington
- OS grid reference
- SU 069 495
- Coordinates
- 51.24478, -1.90206
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Drummer Boy's Post is a 19th-century finger post located on Old Salisbury Road in Market Lavington. It is made of cast iron and features a tapered shaft set on a moulded cylindrical base. At the top, there are three wooden arms that read SALISBURY, DEVIZES, and LAVINGTON, topped with an urn finial. The post was restored around 1980. It is associated with a legend about the ghost of a drummer, which was recorded by Sir Walter Scott and mentioned by Rev R.H. Barham in Ingoldsby Legends, second series.
Local climate
Drummer Boy's Post receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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