Headstone Circa 1.5 Metres South of Hamerton Chapel Church of St Mary the Virgin is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1987. Headstone.
Headstone Circa 1.5 Metres South of Hamerton Chapel Church of St Mary the Virgin
- WRENN ID
- blind-plinth-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 November 1987
- Type
- Headstone
- OS grid reference
- SD 837 580
- Coordinates
- 54.01849, -2.24987
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This headstone, located about 1.5 metres south of Hamerton Chapel at the Church of St Mary the Virgin, dates from the late 17th century and is made of millstone grit. It is inscribed with the initials EW, the age of 31, and the date of death, December 20th in the year 16(??).
Local climate
Headstone Circa 1.5 Metres South of Hamerton Chapel Church of St Mary the Virgin sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% 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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