Milestone at Turning to Foxley Corner is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1988. Milestone.
Milestone at Turning to Foxley Corner
- WRENN ID
- slow-newel-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1988
- Type
- Milestone
- Address
- Milestone at Turning to Foxley Corner, Lydeway, Urchfont
- OS grid reference
- SU 052 578
- Coordinates
- 51.32008, -1.92552
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Milestone located at the turning to Foxley Corner, dating from the 18th and early 19th centuries. It is made of limestone and features an iron plate. The stone is rectangular with a gabled top, and the iron plate is also gabled. The plate reads "SARUM, 19," with a triangular section below that indicates distances: "DEVIZES 4" on the left and "EVERLY 11" on the right.
Local climate
Milestone at Turning to Foxley Corner receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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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