Wilstone War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 October 2016. War memorial.

Wilstone War Memorial

WRENN ID
gentle-lancet-stoat
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dacorum
Constituency
Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 October 2016
Type
War memorial
Address
Wilstone War Memorial, Junction of New Road and Tring Road, Tring, Hertfordshire, Tring Rural, HP23 4NU
OS grid reference
SP 904 140
Coordinates
51.81743, -0.68861
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Wilstone War Memorial is a First World War memorial erected in 1921. It is made from Cornish granite and Derbyshire Gritstone.

The memorial is located on a green at a junction near the center of the village, next to Manor Farm and St Cross Church. It features a Cornish granite cross with a Celtic head and a tapering shaft, which rises from a trapezoidal two-stepped plinth and a square two-stepped base made of Derbyshire Gritstone. The cross is decorated with carved interlace and knotwork. On the west face of the shaft and plinth, there is an inscription that reads: "TO THE/ GLORY/ OF/ GOD/ AND IN/ MEMORY OF/ WILSTONE/ MEN WHO GAVE/ THEIR LIVES/ FOR KING AND/ COUNTRY/ 1914-1918./ (NAMES)."

Local climate

Wilstone 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 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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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