Milestone at Corner of Old Scotch Road is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 1989. Milestone.
Milestone at Corner of Old Scotch Road
- WRENN ID
- seventh-span-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 February 1989
- Type
- Milestone
- Address
- Milestone at Corner of Old Scotch Road, B6254, Mansergh, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- SD 595 829
- Coordinates
- 54.24095, -2.62194
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Milestone located at the corner of Old Scotch Road, likely dating from the early 19th century. It is made of dressed stone and has a square shape set diagonally to the road, with each face featuring a rounded head. The left face is inscribed with "KIRKBY/LONSDALE/3" and the right face with "KENDAL/9", both in sunk ovals. At the base, it reads "LONDON:253". This milestone marks the Kendal to Kirkby Lonsdale turnpike road, established in 1753.
Local climate
Milestone at Corner of Old Scotch Road sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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