Haverthwaite War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 July 2018. War memorial.
Haverthwaite War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- solemn-balcony-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 July 2018
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Haverthwaite War Memorial, Haverthwaite Cemetery, Junction of Old Barrow Road with Levis Garth, Cumbria, Westmorland and Furness, LA12 8AJ
- OS grid reference
- SD 348 840
- Coordinates
- 54.24813, -3.00192
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Haverthwaite War Memorial is a First World War memorial built in 1920, located in Haverthwaite Cemetery at the junction of Old Barrow Road and Levis Garth in Cumbria. It is prominently placed by the churchyard wall and the path leading to the church. The memorial features a plain Latin limestone cross on a plinth with a three-stepped base. The plinth has inscriptions in incised lettering.
The inscription reads: "IN MEMORY OF ALL THOSE/ FROM THE PARISH OF/ HAVERTHWAITE WHO/ SERVED IN THE GREAT/ WAR 1914 – 1919 AND/ ESPECIALLY OF THOSE/ WHOSE NAMES ARE/ INSCRIBED HERE AND/ WHO LAID DOWN THEIR/ LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY/ THEIR NAME LIVETH/ FOR EVERMORE// (NAMES)// 1939 – 1945/ (NAMES)."
Local climate
Haverthwaite War Memorial sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,590 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 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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