Graveslab About 10 Yards to East of Church, to 17 Victims of Mill Fire at Colne Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 May 1984. A Victorian Grave slab.
Graveslab About 10 Yards to East of Church, to 17 Victims of Mill Fire at Colne Bridge
- WRENN ID
- brooding-arch-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Spen Valley MP: Kim Leadbeater (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 May 1984
- Type
- Grave slab
- Period
- Victorian
- OS grid reference
- SE 179 172
- Coordinates
- 53.65115, -1.73052
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a grave slab from 1818, located about 10 yards east of the church in Kirkheaton. It has recently been raised on a low stone plinth. The stone is inscribed in memory of seventeen children whose remains are interred here, who tragically lost their lives in a fire at the cotton mill owned by Mr. Thomas Atkinson at Colne Bridge on February 14, 1818. The inscription explains that the fire was caused when a boy was sent into the lower room with a naked light. The names of the victims, aged between 9 and 18 years, along with their parents' names, are also listed on the slab.
Local climate
Graveslab About 10 Yards to East of Church, to 17 Victims of Mill Fire at Colne Bridge receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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