Milestone East of Whinfell Park is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. Milestone.
Milestone East of Whinfell Park
- WRENN ID
- salt-entrance-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Milestone
- Address
- Milestone East of Whinfell Park, Brougham
- OS grid reference
- NY 565 288
- Coordinates
- 54.65315, -2.67473
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Milestone located east of Whinfell Park, dating from the early 19th century. It is made of cast iron and supported by sandstone. The triangular face of the milestone is inscribed on two sides with the distances to Appleby (10 miles) and Penrith (3 miles). The top of the milestone is slightly broken.
Local climate
Milestone East of Whinfell Park sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,180 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 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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