Milestone in Road Verge about 500m SW of Llanwenny is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 April 1993. Milestone.

Milestone in Road Verge about 500m SW of Llanwenny

WRENN ID
swift-span-kestrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
29 April 1993
Type
Milestone
Address
Milestone in Road Verge about 500m SW of Llanwenny, New Radnor
OS grid reference
SO 155 574
Coordinates
52.20911, -3.23742
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

This milestone, located about 500 meters southwest of Llanwenny, likely dates from the late 18th century to early 19th century and was part of the Turnpike Trust system. It is a simple, low, round-headed structure made of painted sandstone. The milestone is inscribed with the distances to Builth (9 miles) and Kington (11 miles). There is a trig point positioned to one side.

Local climate

Milestone in Road Verge about 500m SW of Llanwenny receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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