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
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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

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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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