Mile Post Approximately 30 Metres West of Paradise is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1987. A C19 Mileage marker.
Mile Post Approximately 30 Metres West of Paradise
- WRENN ID
- floating-string-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 July 1987
- Type
- Mileage marker
- OS grid reference
- SE 146 553
- Coordinates
- 53.99416, -1.77794
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a mile-post located approximately 30 metres west of Paradise in Blubberhouses, North Yorkshire. It dates from the mid-19th century and is made of cast iron, mounted on a gritstone support. The mile-post stands about one metre high and has a triangular shape with a rounded head. The inscriptions on the head read "SKIPTON & KNARESBOROUGH / ROAD / TIMBLE." The left face indicates distances to Harrogate (11 miles) and Knaresborough (13½ miles), while the right face shows the distance to Skipton (11 miles).
Local climate
Mile Post Approximately 30 Metres West of Paradise sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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