Description

ST4717 STOKE SUB HAMDON CP HAM HILL ROAD (East side,off)
6/306 Hamdon Hill War Memorial
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First World War memorial. 1920/23, Ham stone pecked ashlar. Three square- step base, about 4.5 metres wide and 1.5
metre high, the cuboid plinth with one plain panel each face, simple cornice, then a stone obelisk about 6 metres high.
The names of the war dead inscribed in the panels; on the north face an added bronze plaque with the names of the
1939-45 war dead, and set on the north face of the obelisk a bronze wreath placed by the Prince of Wales, as Duke of
Cornwall, on 19th July 1923. This is a very prominent landmark on the spur of Hamdon Hill, located within the Ham Hill
Country Park.

Listing NGR: ST4770717311

This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 14 December 2016.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26534741

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