Milnrow War Memorial

MILNROW WAR MEMORIAL, NEW HEY ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1162572
Date first listed:
23-Apr-1986
List Entry Name:
Milnrow War Memorial
Statutory Address:
MILNROW WAR MEMORIAL, NEW HEY ROAD
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1162572
Date first listed:
23-Apr-1986
List Entry Name:
Milnrow War Memorial
Statutory Address 1:
MILNROW WAR MEMORIAL, NEW HEY ROAD

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
MILNROW WAR MEMORIAL, NEW HEY ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Rochdale (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SD 93342 11956

Details

SD 91 SW MILNROW NEW HEY ROAD
(east side)

3/102 Milnrow War
- Memorial

- II
War memorial c.1920. Ashlar base, bronze statue. Battle-clad
soldier clasping a gun stands on tall square tapering shaft
which bears the 1939-45 roll of honour and a base which
bears the 1914-18 roll of honour. Stylobate."In Memory of
the men of the Milnrow Urban District who died for England."


Listing NGR: SD9334211956


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, 30 January 2017.

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Legacy System number:
213440
Legacy System:
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Sources

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War Memorials Register, accessed 30 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/13073
War Memorials Online, accessed 30 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/168512

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900.© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2026. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.

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