Milestone East of Distington Secondary School is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1985. Milestone.
Milestone East of Distington Secondary School
- WRENN ID
- vacant-turret-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 December 1985
- Type
- Milestone
- Address
- Milestone East of Distington Secondary School, Winscales
- OS grid reference
- NY 011 243
- Coordinates
- 54.60444, -3.53132
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Milestone located east of Distington Secondary School, dating from the late 18th century or early 19th century, was erected for the Cockermouth-Whitehaven Turnpike. It is a whitewashed square stone set at an angle to display cast iron plates. The plates are inscribed with the distances: "TO WORKINGTON 3," "TO COCKERMOUTH 9 MILES," and "TO WHITEHAVEN 5 MILES."
Local climate
Milestone East of Distington Secondary School sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,540 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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