Huskisson Memorial on South Side of Railway, 60 Metres from Road is a Grade II listed building in the St. Helens local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 February 1966. Memorial.
Huskisson Memorial on South Side of Railway, 60 Metres from Road
- WRENN ID
- noble-thatch-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St. Helens
- Constituency
- St Helens North MP: David Baines (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 February 1966
- Type
- Memorial
- OS grid reference
- SJ 605 955
- Coordinates
- 53.45486, -2.59605
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Huskisson Memorial, located on the south side of the railway and 60 meters from the road in Newton-le-Willows, was erected in 1831 to commemorate William Huskisson, the Member of Parliament for Liverpool. This memorial is designed in the style of a simplified Classical temple, featuring a single cell without a portico. The sides of the structure have anta with dentilated panels that support a plain frieze, a dentilated cornice, and a blocking course. Inside the cell is an inscribed tablet, which is a reproduction of the original tablet kept at the National Railway Museum in York. This tablet is flanked by pilasters that support an entablature decorated with wreaths. Huskisson is noted as the first person to die in a railway accident, having been struck and fatally injured by the locomotive Rocket during the opening celebrations of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1830.
Local climate
Huskisson Memorial on South Side of Railway, 60 Metres from Road 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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