Shore Mill War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Rochdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 2016. Memorial. 1 related planning application.

Shore Mill War Memorial

WRENN ID
second-ember-thrush
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Rochdale
Constituency
Rochdale MP: Paul Waugh (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 December 2016
Type
Memorial
Address
Shore Mill War Memorial, Shore Road, Littleborough, OL15 9LU
OS grid reference
SD 928 170
Coordinates
53.64994, -2.10895
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Shore Mill War Memorial is a First World War memorial built in the 1920s, with later additions for the Second World War. It features a tall granite Latin cross with a raised central roundel that contains a Tudor rose. The shaft of the cross has a tapering, rectangular section that rises from a plain pedestal with canted sides, which is elevated on a two-stepped chamfered plinth. The front face of the pedestal includes a dedication in painted metal letters that reads: ERECTED / BY THE EMPLOYEES / OF SHORE MILLS / TO THE MEMORY OF / THEIR FELLOW WORKMEN WHO / LOST THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914 – 1919. The two side faces list the 56 names of those who fell in the First World War. A secondary dedication has been added to the south face of the top step of the plinth, which simply states 1939 – 1945, and the names of seven who fell in the Second World War are recorded at either end of the step.

Local climate

Shore Mill War Memorial sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% 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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