Gravestone of John Blenkinsop Approximately 2 Metres North of Tower of Church of the Holy Trinity is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1988. Gravestone.
Gravestone of John Blenkinsop Approximately 2 Metres North of Tower of Church of the Holy Trinity
- WRENN ID
- grey-nave-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Constituency
- Wakefield and Rothwell MP: Simon Lightwood (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1988
- Type
- Gravestone
- OS grid reference
- SE 342 283
- Coordinates
- 53.75016, -1.48134
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This gravestone, located approximately 2 metres north of the tower of the Church of the Holy Trinity, is dedicated to John Blenkinsop and dates from 1831. It is made of sandstone and features a rectangular slab that is slightly raised. The inscription commemorates John Blenkinsop, who was the steward of the Middleton Estate and passed away in 1831. An additional inscription added in 1931 marks the centenary of his death, noting that he "invented the rack railway in 1811" and that four Matthew Murray locomotives operated on a line he constructed between Leeds and Middleton from 1812 to 1835. His railway system was later adopted in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1813 and Wigan in 1814, making these railways the first on which steam locomotion achieved commercial success.
Local climate
Gravestone of John Blenkinsop Approximately 2 Metres North of Tower of Church of the Holy Trinity receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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