Commondale Shepherd's Memorial

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Reference WMO/235348

Address:

c700m north of North Ings Farm

Commondale

YO21 2HU

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Roadside
Description: Pillar/column
Materials:
  • Stone Stone (any)
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: The Commondale Shepherds War Memorial, situated on Commondale Moor c700m to the north of Ings Farm, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * Historic interest: as an eloquent witness to the tragic impact of world events on the local community, and the sacrifice it made in the First World War; * Biographical: the memorial is unusual in remembering two friends, both shepherds, standing on open moorland where they lived and worked; * Group value: with a range of scheduled monuments surrounding the memorial and a group of Grade II-listed boundary markers to the north-east. Standing on open moorland, the war memorial comprises a narrow, round-headed gritstone pillar c2m high, with rough diagonal tooling. At the top, the Guards’ Fusiliers badge is carved in relief in a small panel. Below that a panel occupying the centre of the pillar’s face carries an inscription. The pillar is set in a low stone base. They had previously been shepherds on the hills, and the Hon. Margaret Bruce Chaloner thought it a fitting place to erect a Memorial in their memory, in the place they had shepherded their flocks. Erected c1920.
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FOR/ REMEMBRANCE./ GUARDSMEN/ ROBBIE LEGGOTT/ KILLED IN ACTION/ 1916./ ALF COCKERILL/ DIED OF WOUNDS/ 1920./ DUTY 1914.

Robbie Leggett and Alf Cockerill.

Grade II (England)

1436162

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