Milestone is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1987. Milestone.
Milestone
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-lead-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 November 1987
- Type
- Milestone
- Address
- Milestone, Ilkley Road, Draughton
- OS grid reference
- SE 050 518
- Coordinates
- 53.96258, -1.92507
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This milestone, dating from around 1890, is located on the north side of Ilkley Road in Draughton. It is made from a round-headed slab of millstone grit, featuring a bolted cast iron front plate. The inscription on the plate reads:
"SKIPTON & OTLEY ROAD DRAUGHTON ILKLEY SKIPTON 5¼ MILES 4 MILES OTLEY 11¼ MILES"
Local climate
Milestone sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% 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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