Bidder Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Merton local planning authority area, England. A Victorian Memorial.
Bidder Memorial
- WRENN ID
- sombre-lancet-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Merton
- Constituency
- Mitcham and Morden MP: Dame Siobhain McDonagh (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Bidder Memorial, Croydon Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 284 680
- Coordinates
- 51.39705, -0.15488
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bidder Memorial is a monument located on the north side of Croydon Road in Mitcham, built in 1896. It is made of granite and features a roughly shaped monolithic stone with battered sides. The stone is inscribed with the words: 'George Parker Bidder QC. Erected by public subscription in remembrance of his efforts to preserve this common, 1896'.
Local climate
Bidder Memorial sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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