Milestone is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1984. Milestone.

Milestone

WRENN ID
sharp-tallow-mist
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Peak District National Park
Constituency
High Peak MP: Jon Pearce (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 March 1984
Type
Milestone
Address
Milestone, Snake Road, Hope Woodlands, High Peak
OS grid reference
SK 112 905
Coordinates
53.4114, -1.83206
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Milestone dated 1828, made of gritstone and triangular in shape. It is inscribed with "MANC/21" and "SHEFF/17". The Snake Pass, where this milestone is located, was a toll road approved by an Act of Parliament in 1818 and opened in 1821, with engineering by Thomas Telford.

Local climate

Milestone sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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