Milestone 280 Metres East of Glebe House is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1983. Milestone.
Milestone 280 Metres East of Glebe House
- WRENN ID
- young-lantern-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Constituency
- Macclesfield MP: Tim Roca (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1983
- Type
- Milestone
- OS grid reference
- SJ 992 800
- Coordinates
- 53.31775, -2.01309
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This milestone, located 280 meters east of Glebe House, dates from the late 18th century. It is a white-washed sandstone block with a triangular section and a shaped top. The west face features black-painted inscriptions indicating distances: "To Chapel 4M, Sheffield 26M, Chesterfield 27M." The east face displays "To Macclesfield 7M" along with an Ordnance Survey benchmark. This milestone is part of a set along the Macclesfield-Whaley Bridge turnpike, which was established in 1770, with other milestones found in Hurdsfield, Rainow, and Lyme Handley.
Local climate
Milestone 280 Metres East of Glebe House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% 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 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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