Milestone on A487 at Blaenporth is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 20 June 1995. Milestone.

Milestone on A487 at Blaenporth

WRENN ID
tangled-rotunda-oak
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ceredigion
Constituency
Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
20 June 1995
Type
Milestone
Address
Milestone on A487 at Blaenporth, Aberporth
OS grid reference
SN 264 487
Coordinates
52.10958, -4.53529
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

This is a freestanding white painted stone milestone located on the A487 at Blaenporth. It stands approximately 0.6 meters high, 0.4 meters wide, and 0.25 meters deep. The milestone is inscribed with the distance to Cardigan, indicating it is 6 miles away.

Local climate

Milestone on A487 at Blaenporth sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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