Naphill War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 April 2017. War memorial.

Naphill War Memorial

WRENN ID
nether-copper-spring
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 April 2017
Type
War memorial
Address
Naphill War Memorial, East Side of the Junction of Main Road and Downley Road, Hughenden
OS grid reference
SU 846 969
Coordinates
51.66518, -0.77697
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Naphill War Memorial is located at the corner of a crossroad, next to the village hall. It is designed as a smooth-sided cairn made of local sandstone, consisting of several large stones with smaller stones filling the gaps, all held together with mortar. The memorial is set on a square dais made of random-rubble stone, featuring stone plaques on two sides. The front plaque has the inscription:

A STONE/ OF/ REMEMBRANCE/ TO THE/ MEN OF NAPHILL/ WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR

The plaque on the northeast side lists the names of ten men from Naphill who died during the Great War, along with the names of two men who fell in the Second World War. Surrounding the memorial is an area of 'crazy' paving, a style that became popular in the inter-war period, within a small garden of remembrance enclosed by a low random-rubble stone wall.

Local climate

Naphill War Memorial sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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