Venton Headstone Approximately 4 Metres West of Church of All Saints is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1989. Headstone.
Venton Headstone Approximately 4 Metres West of Church of All Saints
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-paling-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1989
- Type
- Headstone
- OS grid reference
- SS 420 072
- Coordinates
- 50.84288, -4.24414
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a headstone dedicated to Mary Venton, who died in 1778, and her brother William, who died in 1769 at the age of 1. The headstone is made of slate and features decoration at the top, which has been broken, along with an epitaph below the inscription. It is located approximately 4 metres west of the Church of All Saints.
Local climate
Venton Headstone Approximately 4 Metres West of Church of All Saints sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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