Milestone at Picket Post Service Station is a Grade II listed building in the New Forest National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1987. A C18 Milestone.
Milestone at Picket Post Service Station
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-rubble-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- New Forest National Park
- Constituency
- New Forest West MP: Sir Desmond Swayne (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1987
- Type
- Milestone
- Address
- Milestone at Picket Post Service Station, A31, Burley
- OS grid reference
- SU 191 060
- Coordinates
- 50.85403, -1.72953
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Milestone at Picket Post Service Station, dating from the 18th century. It is made of stone and has a square section with a gabled top. On both sides, there are remnants of an inscription that appears to include town names and distances in Roman numerals.
Local climate
Milestone at Picket Post Service Station receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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