Stone Sign Post at East End of Village, Junction of Roads to London Oxford and Aylesbury is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1954. Milestone.
Stone Sign Post at East End of Village, Junction of Roads to London Oxford and Aylesbury
- WRENN ID
- vacant-chimney-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Wycombe MP: Emma Reynolds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 January 1954
- Type
- Milestone
- Address
- Stone Sign Post at East End of Village, Junction of Roads to London Oxford and Aylesbury, West Wycombe
- OS grid reference
- SU 833 946
- Coordinates
- 51.64465, -0.79654
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The stone sign post at the east end of West Wycombe village marks the junction of the roads to London, Oxford, and Aylesbury. This 18th-century milestone is designed as a short column with a base stone and a ball finial. It features inscriptions indicating the distances in miles to various locations: 30 miles to the City, 22 miles to the University, and 15 miles to the County Town.
Local climate
Stone Sign Post at East End of Village, Junction of Roads to London Oxford and Aylesbury sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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