Hough-on-the-Hill War Memorial is a Grade II listed structure, achieving the status on 6 December 2016.
The memorial takes the form of Calvary constructed of Clipsham stone quarried a few miles north of Stamford. The project was undertaken by Streather and Winn, stonemasons of St Catherine’s Road, Grantham at a cost of £138 17s. Public subscriptions had amounted to the total sum of £141 7s. 6d.
On Sunday 31 October 1920 the memorial was unveiled by the Revd Frederick Markland Percy Sheriffs, rector of St Vincent, Caythorpe.
Following the Second World War, reconfiguration of the memorial was carried out with the names of those who lost their lives in that war added onto a plaque below. Low flanking walls were also added and a stepped base. Historic photographs show that the memorial did not bear a dedication, only the names of those who fell in the First World War, so the inscription may have been added at the time of the reconfiguration. Similarly the original memorial cross carried a figure of the Virgin Mary with the infant Christ which was removed and replaced with a figure of Christ crucified.
--------------------------------------------------
THE CACHE
Behind the memorial, find a male who shares his surname with a type of plane used during WWII. He died Nov AB CDEF.
The cache can be found at:
N 53 00. (A+B) (A+F) (A+B+C+E)
W 000 37. (D-A) E A
**************************************
The series is dedicated to those who fought for their country. "We will remember them!”
If anyone would like to place a War Memorial Cache of your own then please do so. We would ask if you do so please contact Just-us-Two through their profile page or justustwo1013@gmail.com
so they can keep track of the numbers
*************************************
*****PLEASE NOTE IMPORTANT *****
****PHYSICAL CACHES ARE NOT ALLOWED TO BE PLACED ON THE ACTUAL MEMORIAL OR WITHIN THE BOUNDARY OF SUCH MEMORIALS. AT ALL TIMES TREAT LOCATIONS OF MEMORIALS WITH RESPECT. ****