Guide Stone is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1986. Guide stone.
Guide Stone
- WRENN ID
- ancient-sill-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1986
- Type
- Guide stone
- Address
- Guide Stone, West Witton, North Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- SE 061 876
- Coordinates
- 54.28431, -1.9063
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Guide Stone is an early 18th-century sandstone guide stone located in West Witton. It stands approximately 500 millimeters high, with a square shaft and a slightly larger square head that features a hole in the top surface. There is a bench mark on the south side of the shaft. The east side of the head is inscribed with "Middleham," the north side with "Askrigg," and the west side with "HAWES."
Local climate
Guide Stone sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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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