War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. War memorial.
War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- burning-plaster-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Constituency
- High Peak MP: Jon Pearce (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- War Memorial, Castleton Road, Hope, High Peak
- OS grid reference
- SK 173 834
- Coordinates
- 53.34764, -1.74094
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The war memorial, built around 1920, is made of gritstone ashlar and rock-faced gritstone. It features a cenotaph raised on two stone steps, with name panels on each face. The south face is inscribed with "PRO PATRIA" and has a cornice and wreath above it. The memorial is set within a raised enclosure that has low rock-faced walls and chamfered copings. It is listed for its group value only.
Local climate
War Memorial sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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