Milestone Approximately 460 Metres North of Beckhampton Roundabout is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 April 1987. Milestone.
Milestone Approximately 460 Metres North of Beckhampton Roundabout
- WRENN ID
- solitary-flue-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- East Wiltshire MP: Danny Kruger (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 April 1987
- Type
- Milestone
- OS grid reference
- SU 092 691
- Coordinates
- 51.42113, -1.86906
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This milestone, located approximately 460 meters north of Beckhampton Roundabout on the A361, dates from around 1770 and marks the Swindon to Devizes turnpike. It is made of painted sarsen stone and features a shaft that is a chord of a cylinder with a grooved top. The painted inscriptions indicate the distances to Swindon (12 miles to the left) and Devizes (8 miles to the right), along with a bench mark.
Local climate
Milestone Approximately 460 Metres North of Beckhampton Roundabout receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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