Milestone is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 November 1988. Milestone.
Milestone
- WRENN ID
- stony-iron-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 November 1988
- Type
- Milestone
- Address
- Milestone, Thornton in Lonsdale
- OS grid reference
- SD 686 733
- Coordinates
- 54.15473, -2.48135
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Milestone located in Thornton in Lonsdale, dating from the late 19th century. It features a painted cast iron plate that is bolted onto a millstone grit back plate. The inscription reads: "LANCASTER & RICHMOND ROAD, THORNTON IN LONSDALE LANCASTER INGLETON 17 MILES 3/4 MILE HAWES 17 MILES RICHMOND 41 MILES."
Local climate
Milestone sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,330 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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