Monument in Woods South of Dovenby Hall Hospital is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. Monument.
Monument in Woods South of Dovenby Hall Hospital
- WRENN ID
- bitter-stone-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Monument in Woods South of Dovenby Hall Hospital, Bridekirk
- OS grid reference
- NY 096 327
- Coordinates
- 54.68184, -3.40278
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a Grade II listed monument located in the woods south of Dovenby Hall Hospital. It dates from 1837 and is made of pink sandstone. The monument features a stepped plinth supporting a square shaft topped with an urn. There are inscriptions on two faces dedicated to Anne Frances Gunson, who died at the age of fifteen in 1837 and was buried in Edinburgh.
Local climate
Monument in Woods South of Dovenby Hall Hospital sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,420 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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