Milepost on Drimnin to Dorlin road, at NM 55599 54877 is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 January 2022. Milepost.
Milepost on Drimnin to Dorlin road, at NM 55599 54877
- WRENN ID
- half-cloister-burdock
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 January 2022
- Type
- Milepost
- OS grid reference
- NM 556 548
- Coordinates
- 56.62177, -5.9856
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Milepost on Drimnin to Dorlin Road
This is one of seven cast iron mileposts probably erected in or shortly after 1897 along the Drimnin to Dorlin road. The milepost has a fluted column post that splays towards the base. On the front face at the top of the column is an oval makers emblem for the Pioneer Foundry in Blaydon-on-Tyne. The mile marker panels are formed as two oval faces within a larger sub-oval cap, set on the top of the post, with place names and distance numbers in relief. The milepost is unpainted.
These mileposts were erected following the completion of the Poor Relief Road from Drimnin to Dorlin around 1880. Poor Relief Roads were constructed using money from the Poor Relief Fund to provide employment for people receiving poor relief. The route from Drimnin to Dorlin was essentially an upgrade of an existing track, as shown on historical maps from 1747 onwards, rather than an entirely new creation. The County Council briefly adopted the road in 1897 and may have been responsible for erecting the mileposts at that time.
Originally eight mileposts were installed along the route; seven now survive. All are cast iron, made by Pioneer Foundry, and are of the same style and casting as mileposts found on the Isle of Mull and on the isles of Seil and Luing, with other examples visible in Ardnamurchan, Berwickshire, and west Fife.
Local climate
Milepost on Drimnin to Dorlin road, at NM 55599 54877 sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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