Gisburn War Memorial

Gisburn is situated on the A59 from Preston and heads towards Skipton. Gisburn is a market town, you will see the cattle pens as you enter the village.

The memorial is situated at the corner on a slight hill overlooking the crossroads. Should you turn right from Preston you will find a cattle trough too. However the memorial is made of Aberdeen granite, crafted by J Lees and sons. It was unveiled by Lord Ribblesdale on the 16th of April 1921.

The memorial on a slight hill from the Nelson road.
The cottages in the background are on the A59.
Behind the cross is a playing field.

The path upto the memorial. This comes from the corner.
Although it looks flat in the photograph it is quite a steep climb.

IN
GLORIOUS MEMORY OF
THE MEN OF THIS VILLAGE
WHO LAID DOWN THEIR
LIVES FOR THEIR/ KING AND COUNTRY
IN THE GREAT WAR
1914-1918
GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAT THIS
THAT A MEN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR
HIS FRIENDS

1939-1945
WALTER B/ SMITH.
ARTHUR BROWN.

RICHARD NUTTER
GEORGE PROCTOR
JOHN ROBINSON
JOHN WEYMES.

HARRY ELLIS
JOHN E.T. CORNALL
CHARLES A.LISTER
RICHARD LOFTHOUSE
ANTONY LOFTHOUSE

View from the rear of the memorial
A hay wagon thunders past on the Preston road. (A59)

From the rear again, the road to the right goes to Nelson
where the troughs are.
Between the houses is the main road and the village proper.

This rock is close by. there are quite a few trees!
Everything here is nicely tended and looked after.

The A59 Memorial at West Marton

Driving from Preston towards Yorkshire, suddenly a stone cross appears on the left. It is now partly hidden behind a stand of trees that will not have been there when the memorial was erected. As you drive the other way on this quite busy but twisty road the memorial appears over a rise! The memorial has aged, Lichen has taken over parts of the stone. This is quite a tall memorial and looks quite imperious. The villiage of West Marton, not to be confused with Marton in Blackpool is very small. Erecting this stone must have required a benefactor.
There is very little extra information at the United Kingdom War Memorial website. These are my images. The reference is

WEST MARTON

UKNIWM Ref: 29721

Looking towards Lancashire

 This is the inscription on the base of the cross:

"REMEMBER THOSE WHO DIED FOR THEIR 

KING AND COUNTRY

1914 - 1919

R.I.P.

 William Bailey

Joseph Bryan Bushby

Wilfred Dixon

Arthur Frazer

Charles Lickiss

 Atholl Murray MacGregor MC

Alan Charles Richmond Rate

Edward Ogilvie Turnbull

James Varley

 This is a newer inscription and has just two names on it:

1939 1945

Henry Riley Wor??e - there might even be a "d" at the end

John McCleary

This is a good memorial made out of quality sandstone. The inscriptions seem to be really quite shallow compared to other memorials. They are quite hard to decipher with the moss and lichen that is growing on them.
There is an excellent link to the history of the soldiers who are inscribed on the memorial here.
Believe it or not. 3 hours later we passed the same spot and the local authority were mowing the grass and giving it a general tidy up.