Milestone Opposite Highgate Farm at Ngr Su 046847 is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 1985. Milestone.
Milestone Opposite Highgate Farm at Ngr Su 046847
- WRENN ID
- hidden-cornice-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Chippenham MP: Sarah Gibson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 August 1985
- Type
- Milestone
- Address
- Milestone Opposite Highgate Farm at Ngr Su 046847, Malmesbury Road, Royal Wootton Bassett
- OS grid reference
- SU 046 847
- Coordinates
- 51.56144, -1.93497
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an 18th-century milestone located opposite Highgate Farm on the Malmesbury Road (B 4042) in Wootton Bassett. It is made of limestone, although the head is damaged and roughly grooved. The shaft has a half oval section. The inscriptions, which are barely legible, indicate the distances to Malmesbury and Swindon, both marked as 8 miles.
Local climate
Milestone Opposite Highgate Farm at Ngr Su 046847 receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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