Milestone 210 Metres North West of Torgate Farm 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 210 Metres North West of Torgate Farm

WRENN ID
weathered-dormer-indigo
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 985 725
Coordinates
53.25028, -2.02316
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The milestone, dating from around 1750, is located 210 meters north-west of Torgate Farm. It is a triangular sectioned block made of ashlar sandstone with a shaped head. The inscriptions on the stone are becoming difficult to read due to weathering and likely deliberate erasure, but the east face still shows "To Macclesfield 5 miles" and the west face reads "To London 165 miles." This milestone is part of a group along the old Macclesfield-Buxton turnpike established in 1750, with two other similar stones found in Macclesfield Forest. The inscriptions were likely erased when a new turnpike was constructed in 1821.

Local climate

Milestone 210 Metres North West of Torgate Farm 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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