Bothal War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 November 2005. War memorial. 1 related planning application.
Bothal War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- strange-bronze-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Blyth and Ashington MP: Ian Lavery (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 November 2005
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Bothal War Memorial, Bothal Village, Ashington, NE61 6SL
- OS grid reference
- NZ 239 866
- Coordinates
- 55.17332, -1.62527
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bothal War Memorial is a sandstone structure commemorating the fallen from both World Wars. It features a cross mounted on a tapering pedestal with a rectangular plinth, all placed on a stone cairn. The cross is adorned with Celtic interlace carvings on the head and central part of the shaft, with an outer fret and rolled rope motif edging.
The front of the pedestal lists 35 names of those who died in the First World War, along with the inscription "SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF THESE, WHO IN THE GREAT WAR GAVE THEIR LIVES, FOR US AT HOME." The side of the pedestal includes 22 names from the Second World War, accompanied by the inscription "TO THE MEMORY OF THESE, WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE WORLD WAR."
Historically, the local Vicar, who lost his son in the First World War, planted a tree on either side of the memorial. To the left stands a weeping ash, symbolizing the tears of the bereaved, and to the right is a maple that turns red in November, representing the blood of the fallen.
Local climate
Bothal War Memorial receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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