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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Cross
- District
- Macclesfield
- Town
- Over Peover
- County
- Cheshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 26 Nov 1922
Attended by: BRIG-GEN WILLIAM BROMLEY-DEVONPORT CMG CB DSO
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 9994
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Current location
Stocks Lane/Clay Lane junction
Over Peover
Macclesfield
Cheshire
SJ 78804 73666
England
OS Grid Ref: WA16 8UQ
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- A wheeled Cross on a Block plinth and two stepped paved platform.
- Inscription
- On the Cross: TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND TO THE MEMORY OF Onth Plinth: (Names) of the Parish of Peover Superior/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE WAR/ 1914-1918./ THIS CROSS IS DEDICATED
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Edward, Fred
Groves, Ernest
Groves, George
Hales, Alfred
Lover, Charles Gill
Pearce, Walter
Street, Wilfred
Taylor, Walter
See details for all 8 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 8
Served and returned: 0
Died: 8
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname,regiment,forename
Order of information: surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Memorial
Measurements: height 4050 mm
Materials: Stone
- Memorial
- Listing information
- This memorial is not currently listed. Find out how to nominate this memorial for inclusion on the National Heritage List for England
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- Peover Superior War Memorial
- WMO ID: 161685
- Condition: Undefined [last updated on 15-03-2018]
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- Costs
Site: £220
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Public
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