Brock Headstone Approximately 5 Metres North of Aisle of Church of the Holy Trinity is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. Headstone.
Brock Headstone Approximately 5 Metres North of Aisle of Church of the Holy Trinity
- WRENN ID
- seventh-plinth-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Headstone
- OS grid reference
- SX 670 883
- Coordinates
- 50.68001, -3.88296
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a headstone located approximately 5 metres north of the aisle of the Church of the Holy Trinity in Gidleigh. It is dated 1782 and commemorates William Brock. The headstone is made of granite and stands about 750mm high, featuring rounded top corners. The front of the headstone is inscribed with plain upper and lower case lettering, noting the death of William Brock in 1782.
Local climate
Brock Headstone Approximately 5 Metres North of Aisle of Church of the Holy Trinity sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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