Milestone between Crosshands and Tumble is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 12 January 1999. Milestone.

Milestone between Crosshands and Tumble

WRENN ID
distant-minaret-ivy
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Carmarthenshire
Constituency
Llanelli MP: Dame Nia Griffith (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
12 January 1999
Type
Milestone
Address
Milestone between Crosshands and Tumble, Crosshands Village, Llannon
OS grid reference
SN 553 122
Coordinates
51.79029, -4.09799
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

This is a late 18th-century milestone made of limestone, located between Crosshands and Tumble. It features the inscriptions: "From / Llandilo / 9 Miles / To / Llanelly / 8 1/2". The stone measures approximately 500 millimeters in height, 350 millimeters in width, and 150 millimeters in thickness. The top of the milestone is roughly rounded.

Local climate

Milestone between Crosshands and Tumble sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,390 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% 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 0.3°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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