Where is War Memorial?

War Memorial is in Surrey, South-East England, United Kingdom (postcode GU12 5DN), in the parish of Ash.

How do I get to War Memorial?

The nearest railway station is Ash, about 0.6 km away. Drivers can use postcode GU12 5DN.

Is War Memorial a protected site?

Yes — War Memorial is part of the Basingstoke Canal SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest and the Surrey Hills National Landscape (AONB).

Is War Memorial free to visit?

Yes, War Memorial is free to enter.

How do I get to War Memorial?

The nearest railway station is Ash, about 0.6 km away. Drivers can navigate to postcode GU12 5DN.

Memorials & monuments · South East England

War Memorial

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Free admission

War Memorial is a memorial in the United Kingdom.

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Plan your visit

Typical visit: 15 min–45 min
Nearest railway station: Ash · 0.6 km

Free entry
Dog-friendly

War Memorial is a public memorial in Surrey, South-East England, recording local sacrifice and named in the parish register of war and civic monuments. The site is within the Surrey Hills National Landscape (AONB), and is a designated Site of Special Scientific Interest. It sits within the Godalming and Ash parliamentary constituency. The nearest railway station is Ash, about 0.6 km away. Postcode area GU12.

Photo gallery

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Protected designations

Site of Special Scientific Interest: Basingstoke Canal SSSI
Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty: Surrey Hills

Designations sourced from Natural England open data under OGL v3.

From the Wikipedia article

A war memorial is a building, monument, statue, or other edifice to celebrate a war or victory, or (predominating in modern times) to commemorate those who died or were injured in a war.

Excerpt from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0. See the source article linked in Sources below.

Background

History

It has been suggested that the world's earliest known war memorial is the White Monument at Tell Banat, Aleppo Governorate, Syria, which dates from the 3rd millennium BC and appears to have involved the systematic burial of fighters from a state army. The Nizari Ismailis of the Alamut period (the Assassins) had made a secret roll of honor in Alamut Castle containing the names of the assassins and their victims during their uprising. The oldest war memorial in the United Kingdom is Oxford University's All Souls College. It was founded in 1438 with the provision that its fellows should pray for those killed in the long wars with France. War memorials for the Franco-Prussian War (1870–71) were…

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Coordinates: 51.2547, -0.7158
County: Surrey
District: Guildford
Parish: Ash
Postcode: GU12 5DN
Parliamentary constituency: Godalming and Ash
Nearest railway station: Ash — 0.6 km

Sources

osm: n315540363 (ODbL)
wikipedia: War memorial (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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