Milestone Opposite Number 31 is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 July 1986. Milestone.

Milestone Opposite Number 31

WRENN ID
hollow-step-raven
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Chippenham MP: Sarah Gibson (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 July 1986
Type
Milestone
Address
Milestone Opposite Number 31, Devizes Road, Derry Hill & Studley
OS grid reference
ST 957 702
Coordinates
51.43083, -2.06292
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is an early 19th-century milestone located on the east side of Devizes Road in Derry Hill, opposite number 31. The milestone features an attached cast-iron front with a triangular shape and lunettes on each side. It displays the distances to Chippenham (3 miles) to the north and Malmesbury (13 miles) to the south. The flat gabled top includes a lunette indicating Devizes (7 miles). The base, which is not visible, is marked with "Burt, Devizes."

Local climate

Milestone Opposite Number 31 receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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