Memorial 300 Yards South of Osney Lock is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1972. Memorial.
Memorial 300 Yards South of Osney Lock
- WRENN ID
- ragged-footing-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oxford
- Constituency
- Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 June 1972
- Type
- Memorial
- OS grid reference
- SP 506 056
- Coordinates
- 51.7469, -1.26756
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This memorial, located 300 yards south of Osney Lock, is a stone obelisk on a plinth, erected in 1889. It features an inscription dedicated to the memory of Edgar George Wilson, who drowned after rescuing two boys.
Local climate
Memorial 300 Yards South of Osney Lock 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 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% 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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