Milestone 80 Metres East of Gnathole is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1983. Milestone.
Milestone 80 Metres East of Gnathole
- WRENN ID
- rough-railing-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Constituency
- Macclesfield MP: Tim Roca (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 November 1983
- Type
- Milestone
- OS grid reference
- SJ 980 793
- Coordinates
- 53.31065, -2.03146
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This 18th-century milestone is located 80 meters east of Gnathole on the south side of Macclesfield Road in Lyme Handley. It is made of white-washed sandstone and features black-painted incised lettering. The milestone has an acute isosceles triangle shape with a curved top. The west face displays the distances to Chapel (5 miles), Sheffield (27 miles), and Chesterfield (28 miles), while the east face indicates the distance to Macclesfield (6 miles).
Local climate
Milestone 80 Metres East of Gnathole 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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