Midge Monument is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1985. Monument.
Midge Monument
- WRENN ID
- little-sill-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 December 1985
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Midge Monument, A684, New Hutton
- OS grid reference
- SD 546 913
- Coordinates
- 54.31555, -2.69815
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Midge Monument is a structure dating from 1766, with the date inscribed on a panel that has been re-set on the wall of a garage next to the east side of Holme Park school, which is listed separately. The monument is made of coursed rubble and stands approximately 15 feet high, with a square base measuring about 4 feet on each side. It features a pyramidal cap, which is about 3 feet wide and has a broken apex, with a rectangular opening on each face. The inscription on the re-set slab reads: "Hic jacet MIDGE/Equa minima Equa maxima,/Quoe super hoc Ericeto/semper in Curfu fuit./Victrix Ob. 17 Dec 1766/AEtat 30 Nil ortum tale."
Local climate
Midge Monument sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,430 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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