Milestone Set Into Rounded Corner of Wall to West of Town Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1984. Milestone. 5 related planning applications.
Milestone Set Into Rounded Corner of Wall to West of Town Hall
- WRENN ID
- wild-facade-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1984
- Type
- Milestone
- Address
- Milestone Set Into Rounded Corner of Wall to West of Town Hall, Front Street, Alston Moor, CA9 3RF
- OS grid reference
- NY 717 464
- Coordinates
- 54.81238, -2.44121
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This milestone, dating from the early 19th century, is located set into the rounded corner of a wall to the west of the Town Hall in Alston. It was created for the Alston Turnpike Trust and stands approximately 4 feet high and 2 feet wide, featuring an elliptical top. The stone is painted white, with the carved sans-serif lettering highlighted in black, indicating the distances to various locations: Alston, Hexham (23½ miles), Penrith (19 miles), Brampton (20 miles), Middleton (22 miles), and Stanhope (21 miles). Only the face of the milestone is visible as it is embedded in the wall.
Local climate
Milestone Set Into Rounded Corner of Wall to West of Town Hall sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,070 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 75 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 53 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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