Airmen's Cross near Stonehenge is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 May 1995. Memorial.
Airmen's Cross near Stonehenge
- WRENN ID
- half-eave-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- East Wiltshire MP: Danny Kruger (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 May 1995
- Type
- Memorial
- OS grid reference
- SU 100 427
- Coordinates
- 51.18378, -1.85783
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Airmen's Cross near Stonehenge is a memorial dedicated to two pioneering airmen who died in a flying accident in 1912. Made of granite, the memorial features a relief-carved cross set into a wheel-head, with a short shaft and a stepped plinth. It is inscribed with the following words:
"TO THE MEMORY/ OF/ CAPTAIN LORAINE/ AND STAFF-SERGEANT WILSON/ WHO WHILST FLYING ON DUTY MET WITH/ A FATAL ACCIDENT NEAR THIS SPOT/ ON JULY 5TH 1912./ ERECTED BY THEIR COMRADES."
Local climate
Airmen's Cross near Stonehenge receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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