Upper Hill War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 November 2016. War memorial.
Upper Hill War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- gentle-flint-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 November 2016
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Upper Hill War Memorial, Village Green, Birley with Upper Hill, HR6 0JZ
- OS grid reference
- SO 472 534
- Coordinates
- 52.17652, -2.77337
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Upper Hill War Memorial is made of sandstone and features a wheel-head cross on a tapered shaft. The front face of the shaft is decorated with an incised Sword of Sacrifice.
The shaft stands on a two-tiered plinth with a single-step base. The front of the plinth has two recessed panels, one on each tier. The upper tier displays an inscription that reads: "TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ THE GIVER OF VICTORY AND/ TO THE UNDYING MEMORY OF/ THE MEN OF UPPER HILL/ WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES/ IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1919." The lower tier is incised with the names of the fallen and the inscription "BY THEIR DEATH WE LIVE."
On the left face of the lower tier, there is a name from 1920, while the right face includes the details of a fallen submariner from the Second World War.
Local climate
Upper Hill War Memorial receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% 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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