Aberfan War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Merthyr Tydfil local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 17 February 2003. War memorial.
Aberfan War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- muted-marble-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Constituency
- Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare MP: Gerald Jones (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 17 February 2003
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Aberfan War Memorial, Merthyr Vale
- OS grid reference
- ST 072 997
- Coordinates
- 51.68851, -3.34269
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Aberfan War Memorial features a bronze soldier standing on a Portland stone pedestal. The soldier holds his helmet aloft in one hand and loosely carries a rifle in the other. The pedestal includes a plinth and a tapered shaft with an incised inscription and a bronze wreath on the front. There is an affixed bronze plaque on the rear listing names. Additionally, there is a plaque on the right side with names from the 1939-45 period and another plaque on the left side with a name from 1999 related to Bosnia.
Local climate
Aberfan War Memorial sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% 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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