Godley Hill War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Tameside local planning authority area, England. War memorial.
Godley Hill War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- haunted-facade-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tameside
- Constituency
- Stalybridge and Hyde MP: Jonathan Reynolds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Godley Hill War Memorial, Godley Hill Road, Hyde, SK14 3BW
- OS grid reference
- SJ 966 949
- Coordinates
- 53.45175, -2.05219
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Godley Hill War Memorial is located on the west side of Godley Hill Road, set within a circular garden that is enclosed by low stone walls. Access is provided through black-painted metal gates at the front. In front of the memorial, there is a white marble flower vase inscribed with the dedication "IN MEMORY OF THE FALLEN GODLEY HILL."
The memorial features a two-stepped base that is square in shape, supporting a plinth topped by a slender granite obelisk. Surrounding the base is a small rockery, which stands on a circular platform. Low ornamental metal posts fixed into the kerb of the platform carry a chain around the memorial.
The main dedicatory inscription, incised on the front face of the plinth, reads "ERECTED IN HONOUR AND DEEP GRATITUDE TO THE MEN WHO FOUGHT FOR LIBERTY AND FREEDOM IN THE GREAT WORLD WAR. 1914 - 1919." The riser of the upper stage of the base has the inscription "UNVEILED BY DANIEL ADAMSON ESQ OF LONGLANDS, JULY 17TH 1920." The riser of the lower stage bears the inscription "WILLOUGHBY WILDE & SONS HYDE."
Local climate
Godley Hill War Memorial sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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