Guide Post is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1985. Guide post.
Guide Post
- WRENN ID
- cold-gable-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Constituency
- Colne Valley MP: Paul Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1985
- Type
- Guide post
- Address
- Guide Post, Mount Road, Kirklees
- OS grid reference
- SE 033 100
- Coordinates
- 53.58742, -1.95139
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The guide post, likely from the 17th century, is located near the junction of early trans-Pennine routes from the Colne Valley in Standedge, Marsden. The post features distinct markings, although they are not legible. A similar guide post can be found at Marsden Manor House nearby, which is currently used as a gate post and is dated 1674.
Local climate
Guide Post 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 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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