Barbon

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Reference WMO/180198

Address:

Main Street

Barbon

LA6 2L

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Roadside
Description: Unknown cross
Materials:
  • Stone Sandstone
Lettering: Leaded
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Sandstone cross with octagonal shaft on 3-stepped octagonal masonry plinth approx. 3 metres wide. Total height 5 metres. Monument sited on a traffic island at a T-junction in the centre of the village. The war memorial was unveiled on Saturday October 1st 1921. It is of Derbyshire stone, solid and plain in character: the cross surmounting a base of masonry of substantial construction. The site, in the middle of the village, was given by Major Gibson, Burnside. An oak fence has been placed around the enclosure. Source WG Oct 8th 1921. {The fence has long gone}. See page 79 of 'Britain in Old Photographs-Kirkby Lonsdale and District' by Nigel & Phillip Dalziel for a photograph of the memorial with this fence, when the memorial was almost new.
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'+ These men of Barbon died for England'

1914 - 1919 Thomas Arthur Airey; Edward Bond; William Bond; William James Sharp; Lawrence U. Kay Shuttleworth; Edward J. Kay Shuttleworth; William Henry Tallon. 1939 - 1945 Richard Ughtred Paul, 2nd Lord Shuttleworth; Ronald Orlando Lawrence, 3rd Lord Shuttleworth

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