Robber's Stone is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 December 1987. Memorial. 1 related planning application.
Robber's Stone
- WRENN ID
- odd-pewter-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South West Wiltshire MP: Dr Andrew Murrison (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 December 1987
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Robber's Stone, Chitterne Down
- OS grid reference
- ST 996 451
- Coordinates
- 51.20538, -2.00621
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Robber's Stone is an inscribed stone located in Chitterne, dating from around 1840. It is a limestone pillar approximately 2 metres high with a flat top, featuring a steel plate on the front. The inscription commemorates the death of Benjamin Colclough, a highway robber, who died during his attempted escape from a crime scene at Imber on October 21st, 1839, and was buried in Chitterne. The inscription also notes that his three accomplices, Thomas Saunders, George Waters, and Richard Harris, were captured and sentenced to fifteen years of transportation at the subsequent Quarter Sessions in Devizes. This stone is situated within the army ranges on Salisbury Plain.
Local climate
Robber's Stone receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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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