Clifton War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Salford local planning authority area, England. War memorial.
Clifton War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- bitter-rubble-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Salford
- Constituency
- Salford MP: Rebecca Long Bailey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Clifton War Memorial, Manchester Road
- OS grid reference
- SD 777 032
- Coordinates
- 53.52587, -2.33637
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Clifton War Memorial, built around 1919, is a war memorial designed by Gordon Forsyth of the Royal Lancastrian Pottery. It is constructed of ashlar stone and features a sculpted lion sitting atop a tall, tapering square shaft that has a base and capital. The shaft is adorned with a cross, rolls of honour, and an inscription that reads: "To the memory of the men of Clifton who died for freedom."
Local climate
Clifton War Memorial sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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