Milepost, Mcfarlane Road, Bearsden is a Grade C listed building in the East Dunbartonshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 April 2002. Milepost.

Milepost, Mcfarlane Road, Bearsden

WRENN ID
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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
East Dunbartonshire
Constituency
Mid Dunbartonshire MP: Susan Murray (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
25 April 2002
Type
Milepost
OS grid reference
NS 550 714
Coordinates
55.9141, -4.3204
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This milepost, located on McFarlane Road in Bearsden, dates back to 1861. It is a single-stage, rectangular, slightly bow-fronted cast-iron post featuring embossed pointing hands, names, and distances. The milepost is set into a low saddleback-coped bull-faced rubble wall. It includes detailed inscriptions that read 'GLASGOW ROYAL EXCHANGE 5', 'BALFRON 14', and 'ABERFOIL 21'.

Local climate

Milepost, Mcfarlane Road, Bearsden sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,290 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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