Tomb to William Hobbs in Churchyard to South East of Church of St Michael is a Grade II listed building in the Dartford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 March 1982. A Early Modern Monument.
Tomb to William Hobbs in Churchyard to South East of Church of St Michael
- WRENN ID
- salt-chapel-dew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartford
- Constituency
- Sevenoaks MP: Laura Trott (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 March 1982
- Type
- Monument
- Period
- Early Modern
- Address
- Tomb to William Hobbs in Churchyard to South East of Church of St Michael, Church Hill, Wilmington
- OS grid reference
- TQ 538 724
- Coordinates
- 51.43018, 0.21199
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The tomb to William Hobbs is located in the churchyard southeast of the Church of St Michael. It is a stone chest tomb featuring armorial bearings at one end. William Hobbs, who died in 1685, was a physician from London.
Local climate
Tomb to William Hobbs in Churchyard to South East of Church of St Michael sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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