Preesall and Knott End War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Wyre local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 June 2016. War memorial.
Preesall and Knott End War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- third-parapet-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wyre
- Constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre MP: Cat Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 June 2016
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Preesall and Knott End War Memorial, The Mount, Lancaster Road, Poulton Le Fylde, Lancashire, FY6 0DX
- OS grid reference
- SD 360 482
- Coordinates
- 53.92623, -2.97591
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Preesall War Memorial is situated on The Mount, also known as Hakon’s Mound, which is believed to be an ancient earthwork, possibly a mill-mound or garden feature. This location is on the west side of Lancaster Road, at the junction with Pilling Lane. The memorial features a tall cross on a tapering plinth, which stands on a two-stepped base.
Bronze plaques attached to the plinth display inscriptions. The main dedicatory inscription on the front reads: "THIS CROSS IS ERECTED/ IN HONOUR AND REMEMBRANCE/ OF THE MEN OF PREESALL/ WHO FELL IN THE WARS/ 1914-1918 AND 1939-1945." Names of those commemorated are listed on the other three sides.
Access to the memorial is from the east via a path and a flight of stone steps, which are lined with new handrails added in 2014; however, these handrails are not considered of special interest.
Local climate
Preesall and Knott End War Memorial sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,420 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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