Elba Monument is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1984. Monument.
Elba Monument
- WRENN ID
- lost-vault-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1984
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Elba Monument, Strickland Ketel
- OS grid reference
- SD 496 951
- Coordinates
- 54.34916, -2.77549
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Elba Monument is a structure erected in 1814 by James Bateman of Tolson Hall. It is made of roughly squared and coursed limestone, set on a two-stage plinth with ashlar dressings. Originally, a plaque was intended to be placed on the monument, which would have read: "In honour of William Pitt the Pilot that weathered the storm" Elba. However, due to Napoleon's escape from Elba, this inscription was never engraved. A century later, in 1914, a tablet was placed here by Charles Cropper of Ellergreen. The monument is located on a mound known as Monument Hill, northwest of Kendal, and it holds landscape value.
Local climate
Elba Monument sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,480 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 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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