The Peace Stone is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1972. Memorial.
The Peace Stone
- WRENN ID
- little-outpost-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oxford
- Constituency
- Oxford East MP: Anneliese Dodds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 June 1972
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- The Peace Stone, the Plain
- OS grid reference
- SP 522 059
- Coordinates
- 51.75021, -1.24401
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Peace Stone is a small stone that now serves as a bollard on The Plain roundabout. It is inscribed with the words 'Peace was proclaimed in the County of Oxford, June 27 1814'.
Local climate
The Peace Stone sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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