Troed-y-Rhiw War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Merthyr Tydfil local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 July 2003. War memorial.
Troed-y-Rhiw War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- frozen-belfry-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Constituency
- Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare MP: Gerald Jones (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 29 July 2003
- Type
- War memorial
- OS grid reference
- SO 069 025
- Coordinates
- 51.71421, -3.34808
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Troed-y-Rhiw War Memorial is a war memorial featuring a white marble statue of a soldier holding a reversed gun. The statue stands on a pedestal made of grey granite, which includes a moulded plinth, a coved cornice, and a tapering shaft that is inscribed with names on all four sides. The front of the memorial has an additional raised shaped plaque with a ribbon scroll above a commemorative inscription. The memorial is elevated on four steps with chamfered leading edges.
Local climate
Troed-y-Rhiw 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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