Monument 1 Metre North of Drinking Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Winchester local planning authority area, England. Monument.
Monument 1 Metre North of Drinking Fountain
- WRENN ID
- empty-nave-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Winchester
- Constituency
- Hamble Valley MP: Paul Holmes (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- SU 521 132
- Coordinates
- 50.91602, -1.25912
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This monument, dating from 1800, is located 1 metre north of a drinking fountain on Station Hill in Curdridge. It consists of a sloping stone slab that features an inset cast metal sheet with raised lettering. The inscription states, "This stone is erected to Perpetuate a Most Cruel Murder Committed on the Body of Thomas Webb a Poor Inhabitant of Swanmore on the 11 February 1800 by John Diggins a Private Soldier in the Talbot Fencibles whose remains are Gibbeted on the Adjoining Common."
Local climate
Monument 1 Metre North of Drinking Fountain 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 greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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