Monument and Adjacent Stone 300 Metres South-West of Moor Gate is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1987. Monument.
Monument and Adjacent Stone 300 Metres South-West of Moor Gate
- WRENN ID
- patient-step-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 October 1987
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- NZ 077 098
- Coordinates
- 54.48437, -1.88146
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The monument, dated 1892, is made of shap granite and features a tapering pyramid-topped obelisk on a splayed plinth and square base, standing at an overall height of 3 metres. The inscription on the plinth reads, "AT THIS STAND (CARBUS) WERE SHOT 190 GROUSE AT A SINGLE DRIVE LASTING TWENTY FIVE MINUTES BY SIR FREDERICK MILBANK BART. M.P. ON THE 20TH AUGUST 1872 AT WHICH TIME JOSEPH COLLINSON WAS HEAD KEEPER. ERECTED BY LADY MILBANK IN COMMEMORATION 1892." The base has an inscription stating, "TOTAL BAG, AUGUST 20TH 1872 2,070 GROUSE (SIX SHOOTERS). TOTAL KILLED IN THE SEASON 17,064 GROUSE ON WEMMERGILL MOOR." An adjacent stone notes, "THIS MEMORIAL WAS REMOVED FROM WEMMERGILL MOOR TO THIS SITE AFTER SIR FREDERICK MILBANK CAME INTO POSSESSION OF BARNINGHAM MOOR." The monument holds social-historical significance as it commemorates the events that took place on Wemmergill Moor, located south-west of Middleton-in-Teesdale.
Local climate
Monument and Adjacent Stone 300 Metres South-West of Moor Gate receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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