Milestone in Front of the Halfway House is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 November 2010. Milestone.
Milestone in Front of the Halfway House
- WRENN ID
- sacred-basalt-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Wycombe MP: Emma Reynolds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 November 2010
- Type
- Milestone
- Address
- Milestone in Front of the Halfway House, 706, London Road
- OS grid reference
- SU 893 915
- Coordinates
- 51.61595, -0.7114
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a stone milestone located on London Road (A40), just outside the Halfway House public house. It dates to 1744 and is a testament to the development of the national transport network during a significant period of road improvement in the 18th century. Turnpike trusts were established to maintain roads connecting London with major cities, and milestones became common in the mid-18th century as a consequence of the 1744 Turnpike Act. The milestone stands on the route from Oxford to London.
The milestone has a shallow curved top and is four-sided. The west facing side is inscribed "XXXV, London, 1744". The north-facing side reads "London 27, Uxbridge 12". The east facing side, inscribed in a slightly different style, reads “Oxford 27, Wycombe 2”, and may represent a later recarving.
The milestone is in good condition, with all inscriptions clearly legible, and has remained in its current location since at least 1876. It is better preserved than a milestone approximately a mile to the east at Loudwater. Other similar milestones along this route, including those at Stokenchurch and Chepping Wycombe, are also dated 1744.
Local climate
Milestone in Front of the Halfway House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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