Folkestone Memorial Cairn is a Grade II listed building in the Folkestone and Hythe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 2013. Memorial.
Folkestone Memorial Cairn
- WRENN ID
- cold-soffit-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Constituency
- Folkestone and Hythe MP: Tony Vaughan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 2013
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Folkestone Memorial Cairn, Road of Remembrance, Kent
- OS grid reference
- TR 228 357
- Coordinates
- 51.07781, 1.1798
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Folkestone Memorial Cairn is a monument located at the west end of the Road of Remembrance, about 30 meters from the main Folkestone war memorial. It stands approximately 1.5 meters tall with a square cross-section and is designed as a cairn that tapers upwards, constructed from stone road setts. The cairn features a shallow pyramidal stone cap.
On the south face of the cairn, there is a bronze plaque inscribed with a quote from Tennyson: "NOT ONCE OR TWICE IN OUR ROUGH ISLAND STORY / THE PATH OF DUTY WAS THE WAY TO GLORY." The plaque also includes the words "ROAD / OF / REMEMBRANCE," flanked by the dates 1914 and 1918. It commemorates the tens of thousands of British soldiers who passed along this road during the Great War on their way to and from the battlefields of Europe. The inscription continues, "AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN / AND IN THE MORNING WE WILL REMEMBER THEM," along with the phrase "ROSEMARY FOR REMEMBRANCE."
Additionally, a second plaque has been added below the first, which states that "THE ROSEMARY BED / WAS PLANTED BY / SOROPTIMISTS INTERNATIONAL / FOLKESTONE / TO COMMEMORATE / THEIR 25TH ANNIVERSARY / 1965-1990."
Local climate
Folkestone Memorial Cairn receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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