Milepost outside the Western Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 13 January 1976. Milepost.
Milepost outside the Western Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- iron-wattle-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cardiff
- Constituency
- Cardiff West MP: Mr Alex Barros-Curtis (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1976
- Type
- Milepost
- Address
- Milepost outside the Western Cemetery, Ely
- OS grid reference
- ST 121 751
- Coordinates
- 51.46841, -3.26573
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This is an ornately moulded cast-iron milepost in Gothic style, located outside the Western Cemetery. It is part of a series along the A48 to the west of Cardiff. The milepost features a rectangular panel at the base inscribed with 'MICHAELSTONE PARISH', although the date panel is hidden. Above this, there is a tall crowning tablet with a curved head, inscribed with 'CARDIFF DISTRICT'. The lower part of this tablet has two pointed-headed panels; the left panel is inscribed 'TO CARDIFF 4', and the right panel is inscribed 'TO COWBRIDGE 8'. Additionally, there is a further inscription 'LONDON 162' located below these panels and above the rectangular panel at the base.
Local climate
Milepost outside the Western Cemetery sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% 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 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% 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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