Monument to Captain Webb is a Grade II listed building in the Telford and Wrekin local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 April 1983. Monument.
Monument to Captain Webb
- WRENN ID
- patient-quartz-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Telford and Wrekin
- Constituency
- Telford MP: Shaun Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 April 1983
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Monument to Captain Webb, High Street, Great Dawley
- OS grid reference
- SJ 685 074
- Coordinates
- 52.66352, -2.46671
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Monument to Captain Webb, dated 1909, is a memorial located on High Street in Dawley. It features lion-head drinking fountains above the plinth and has pedimental gables over panelled sides that include inscriptions and medallions. Captain Matthew Webb, born in Dawley in 1848, was the first person to swim the English Channel and tragically died while attempting to swim the Niagara Rapids in 1883. A modern lamp is situated on top of the finial.
Local climate
Monument to Captain Webb receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% 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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