Whicham and Silecroft War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 2018. A C20 War memorial.
Whicham and Silecroft War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-arch-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Barrow and Furness MP: Michelle Scrogham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 July 2018
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Whicham and Silecroft War Memorial, Hodgson's Green, Main Street, Cumbria, Cumberland, LA18 5LP
- OS grid reference
- SD 132 821
- Coordinates
- 54.22773, -3.33188
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Whicham and Silecroft War Memorial is a First World War memorial built in 1921, with an addition for the Second World War. It features a 2.14-meter tall ashlar stone obelisk set on a two-stepped square plinth that is paved and surrounded by a bed of chippings. This area is enclosed by a low square concrete wall that supports ornamental iron railings. The south-west face of the obelisk has an incised inscription listing eight soldiers who fell in the First World War and two from the Second World War, which reads: MEN/ OF/ WHICHAM/ WHO/ SERVED IN/ THE/ GREAT WAR/ 1914-1918/ FALLEN/ (NAMES)/ THESE ALSO DIED FOR US/ 1939-1945/ (NAMES). Additional inscriptions on the north-west and south-east faces provide the names of 55 men who served during the First World War. There is also a secondary memorial stone that commemorates Lance-Sergeant Tom Fletcher Mayson VC, a holder of the Victoria Cross.
Local climate
Whicham and Silecroft War Memorial sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,580 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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