Ockbrook and Borrowash War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Erewash local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 May 2016. War memorial.
Ockbrook and Borrowash War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- old-arch-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Erewash
- Constituency
- Mid Derbyshire MP: Jonathan Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 May 2016
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Ockbrook and Borrowash War Memorial, Victoria Avenue, Derbyshire
- OS grid reference
- SK 420 353
- Coordinates
- 52.91402, -1.37668
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Ockbrook and Borrowash War Memorial is a First World War memorial that was unveiled and dedicated in 1922, with additions for the Second World War. It is made of Hopton Wood limestone and is square in plan.
The memorial features an obelisk located on the west side of Victoria Avenue, positioned between the villages of Ockbrook to the north and Borrowash to the south. It consists of a two-stepped base that supports a rectangular plinth with a moulded capstone. The obelisk itself tapers in square section to a pyramidal top. On the north-west face of the obelisk, the inscription reads 'In Memoriam / 1914 - 1918 / 1935 - 1945'. The top step of the base on the same side carries the First World War dedication, which states, 'REMEMBER WITH THANKSGIVING THE TRUE AND / FAITHFUL MEN, WHO IN THE YEARS OF WAR WENT / FORTH FROM THIS PARISH FOR GOD AND RIGHT; THE / NAMES OF THOSE WHO RETURNED NOT AGAIN ARE / HERE INSCRIBED TO BE HONOURED FOR EVERMORE.' The names of those who died in the First World War are inscribed on all four sides of the plinth, while the names of those who perished in the Second World War are recorded on the base.
The sunken paved area surrounding the memorial, including the chain link fence with concrete fence posts, is not included in the listing.
Local climate
Ockbrook and Borrowash War Memorial sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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