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
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 October 1987
- Type
- Monument
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
NZ 00 NE NZ 07770989 BARNINGHAM BARNINGHAM VILLAGE (West end)
10/55 Monument and adjacent stone 300 metres south- west of moor gate
II
Monument, dated 1892. Shap granite. Tapering pyramid-topped obelisk on splayed plinth and square base; overall height 3 metres. Inscription on plinth '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'. Inscription on base 'TOTAL BAG, AUGUST 20TH 1872 2,070 GROUSE (SIX SHOOTERS). TOTAL KILLED IN THE SEASON 17,064 GROUSE ON WEMMERGILL MOOR'. On adjacent stone 'THIS MEMORIAL WAS REMOVED FROM WEMMERGILL MOOR TO THIS SITE AFTER SIR FREDERICK MILBANK CAME INTO POSSESSION OF BARNINGHAM MOOR'.
Included for social-historical interest: Wemmergill Moor, the scene of the slaughter commemorated, lies south-west of Middleton-in-Teesdale.
Listing NGR: NZ0777809897
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