Milepost Approximately 160 Metres East of Churchill Road Corner is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 2000. Milepost.
Milepost Approximately 160 Metres East of Churchill Road Corner
- WRENN ID
- blind-corbel-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 2000
- Type
- Milepost
- OS grid reference
- ST 563 461
- Coordinates
- 51.21271, -2.62654
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a milepost located approximately 160 metres east of the corner of Churchill Road in Wells. It dates from the early 19th century and is made of cast iron. The milepost has a triangular shape, measuring 400 millimetres across the back and about 310 millimetres on the exposed faces, standing approximately 1 metre high with a raked top. It features two applied side panels with concave rounded corners and raised lettering. The west face reads "Bath/19/Miles" and the east face reads "Wells/1/Mile". This milepost marks the beginning of the road from Wells to Bath, which was turnpiked by the Wells Trust from 1753 to 1883. In 1847, Mr. John Kelway won a contract for "Iron Mile Marks" for the Wells Trust, and this milepost may be one of those.
Local climate
Milepost Approximately 160 Metres East of Churchill Road Corner receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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