Hamsterley War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. War memorial.
Hamsterley War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- burning-jade-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Hamsterley War Memorial, Saunders Avenue, DL13 3PP
- OS grid reference
- NZ 120 310
- Coordinates
- 54.67394, -1.81504
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Hamsterley War Memorial is a tall sandstone structure located on a green at the east end of the village, enclosed by a low, coursed stone wall with corner and centre piers. The memorial features a small cross head that rises from a moulded collar on a tapering shaft, which is set atop a square pedestal with a pedimented top. This pedestal is supported by a four-stepped base.
The main dedicatory inscription on the front face of the pedestal reads, "THEY GAVE THEIR LIVES/ FOR THEIR COUNTRY,/ THEIR SOULS TO GOD/ AND THEIR NAMES/ TO POSTERITY." On the rear, it includes "A TRIBUTE OF HONOUR" followed by five names and the dates 1914 – 1919. Additionally, three names of local men who emigrated to Canada and Australia and served in the Commonwealth forces during the First World War are listed on one side, while the names of those who served in the Second World War are recorded on the last face. The name of a soldier who died in Afghanistan in 2013 is inscribed on the face of the upper step of the base.
Local climate
Hamsterley War Memorial receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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