Distington War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 2018. War memorial.
Distington War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- final-granite-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 2018
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Distington War Memorial, Main Street, Cumbria, CA14 5XP
- OS grid reference
- NY 005 229
- Coordinates
- 54.59195, -3.54095
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Distington War Memorial is a First World War memorial built in 1921, with additions for the Second World War. It is made of grey granite and is located on Main Street in Distington, Cumbria, near the southern junction with the B5306, close to Beck Green.
The memorial features a silver grey granite obelisk with a moulded foot that has carved swags, set on a tall four-sided plinth with a deep cornice and a two-tiered moulded foot. The south face of the plinth includes a relief-carved sheathed sword. The entire structure stands on a three-tiered square base.
The plinth is inscribed in leaded lettering, detailing the names of those commemorated. The inscriptions are as follows: on the south face, it reads, "ERECTED BY THE INHABITANTS OF THIS PARISH TO THE MEMORY OF THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR (NAMES) 'SALUTE THE GLORIOUS DEAD WHO WENT OUT AND RETURNED NOT' 1914-1918 (NAMES)"; the west face lists (NAMES); the north face lists (NAMES); and the east face states, "IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO PAID THE SUPREME SACRIFICE 1939-1945 (NAMES)."
Local climate
Distington War Memorial sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,540 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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