Monument to Ransley Family, About 10 Metres South East of Church of St Mary Magdalene is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 August 1988. Monument.
Monument to Ransley Family, About 10 Metres South East of Church of St Mary Magdalene
- WRENN ID
- endless-buttress-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 August 1988
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- TR 024 335
- Coordinates
- 51.06532, 0.88865
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The monument to the Ransley family is located about 10 metres southeast of the Church of St. Mary Magdalene in Ruckinge. It commemorates James and William Ransley, who died in 1800. The monument consists of a simple wooden plank supported by iron posts with spear finials at either end and a central iron split-post. The wooden board may have originally been painted with an inscription. James and William Ransley were part of the Aldington gang, led by Cephas Quested and George Ransley, and were hanged in 1800 for smuggling offences. Due to their local significance, the Ransleys, who were born in nearby Ransley Cottage, were given an honourable burial in the churchyard. The Aldington gang inspired the novel "The Smugglers" by G.P.R. James and the Dr. Syn adventure series by Russel Thorndike.
Local climate
Monument to Ransley Family, About 10 Metres South East of Church of St Mary Magdalene 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 greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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