Burley War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the New Forest National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 December 2016. War memorial. 2 related planning applications.
Burley War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- fallow-obsidian-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- New Forest National Park
- Constituency
- New Forest West MP: Sir Desmond Swayne (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 December 2016
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Burley War Memorial, the Cross, Ringwood, BH24 4AA
- OS grid reference
- SU 211 030
- Coordinates
- 50.82638, -1.70175
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Burley War Memorial is a Celtic cross erected in 1919 by Farmer and Brindley. It is constructed from Portland stone. The memorial consists of a tapering square shaft set upon a tapering plinth with two steps. The head of the cross features a relief moulding of an interweaving Celtic pattern. Inscriptions are incised and painted on the plinth; the south-west facing side reads “IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO WENT / OUT FROM BURLEY AND FELL / GALLANTLY IN DEFENCE OF THEIR / COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-18 / “THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE” /ERECTED BY COL. FRANK WILLAN AND HIS / WIFE AS A TOKEN OF THEIR GRATITUDE / TO GOD FOR THE PRESERVATION OF TWO / SONS AND A SON-IN-LAW IN THE ARMY WHO / SERVED IN FRANCE DURING THE WAR,” alongside the names, ranks, and regiments of those who died. The north-west and south-east sides also list names and regiments. The north-east facing side acknowledges the 1939-1945 war, naming 21 men. A small inscription on the south-east face identifies the masons, Farmer and Brindley. The cross stands on a paved square base and is enclosed by a chain fence with three tapering square posts on each side.
Local climate
Burley War Memorial receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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