Country Life 7 November 2012 pp.52-54 The original plan was an offer by the squire (Tom Radford) to give the Reading Room to the village to turn it into a War Memorial Institute with tablets commemorating the fallen. Only £175 of the required £500 was raised and it was decided to erect a cross instead.

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Clive Aslet has written a book about Lydford war memorial entitled 'War Memorial: The Story of one village's sacrifice from 1914-2003' (published by Viking, 2013)