Milepost, Cocklaw is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 July 1998.
Milepost, Cocklaw
- WRENN ID
- rusted-rampart-thunder
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Dunfermline and Dollar MP: Graeme Downie (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 10 July 1998
- OS grid reference
- NT 027 971
- Coordinates
- 56.15682, -3.56729
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a group of three cast-iron mileposts, likely dating from the mid-19th century, located on the A823 road between Dunfermline and Rumbling Bridge. Each post features a two-stage design with a black and white finish. They have a waisted columnar plinth that transitions into finialled, battered rectangular faces. Each face displays the name of the destination along with the distance in miles. The inscriptions are as follows:
- One post indicates Dunfermline 7 miles and Rumbling Bridge 9.5 miles.
- Another post shows Dunfermline 8 miles and Rumbling Bridge 9.5 miles.
- The third post states Dunfermline 9 miles and Rumbling Bridge 2.5 miles.
Local climate
Milepost, Cocklaw sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 64 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 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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