Milestone Approximately 60 Metres South of Junction of A6 with Moss Lane is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. Milestone.
Milestone Approximately 60 Metres South of Junction of A6 with Moss Lane
- WRENN ID
- hushed-stone-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Milestone
- OS grid reference
- SD 509 774
- Coordinates
- 54.19058, -2.75307
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This milestone, located approximately 60 meters south of the junction of the A6 with Moss Lane, dates from the early 19th century. It is made of dressed limestone and stands upright with a flat top and deep chamfers on the front corners. The stone is painted black and white, featuring black sans-serif lettering that reads "MILNTHORPE 2¾" on the south side and "LANCASTER 11" on the north side.
Local climate
Milestone Approximately 60 Metres South of Junction of A6 with Moss Lane sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,440 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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