Derwent Woodlands War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 November 2019. War memorial.
Derwent Woodlands War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- fallen-threshold-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Constituency
- High Peak MP: Jon Pearce (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 November 2019
- Type
- War memorial
- OS grid reference
- SK 182 883
- Coordinates
- 53.39124, -1.72687
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Derwent Woodlands War Memorial is a First World War memorial located on the south-west side of the road, just south-west of the Ladybower reservoir in the Upper Derwent Valley, Derbyshire.
Constructed from ashlar and rock-faced gritstone, the memorial features a wheel-head cross supported by a tapered shaft, which stands on a deep plinth set on a three-stepped base. It is surrounded by a paved area with a boundary gravel path, enclosed by low coursed squared gritstone walls topped with half-round copings. The enclosure includes corner and intermediate gritstone piers with domed caps. An entrance on the north-east side is marked by stone gate piers that lead to a paved approach to the memorial.
On the north-east face of the shaft, there is an ashlar plaque with the dedication: 'IN MEMORY OF THE MEN OF DERWENT - WOODLANDS WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918'. Below this, a second plaque lists the name, rank, and regiment of each of the ten men who lost their lives in that conflict.
Local climate
Derwent Woodlands War Memorial sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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