Friends' Burial Ground is a Grade II listed building in the Rossendale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 June 1971. Burial ground.
Friends' Burial Ground
- WRENN ID
- north-loft-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rossendale
- Constituency
- Rossendale and Darwen MP: Andy MacNae (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 June 1971
- Type
- Burial ground
- Address
- Friends' Burial Ground, Chapel Hill
- OS grid reference
- SD 818 236
- Coordinates
- 53.70901, -2.27596
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Friends' Burial Ground is an enclosure associated with a Quaker Meeting place, which was used as a burial ground from 1663 to 1847. The walls of the burial ground were rebuilt in 1847. The dry stone wall surrounding the simple rectangular enclosure stands approximately 2 metres high and measures about 15 by 12 metres. There is a gateway on the north side that leads from the lane, featuring a lintel inscribed with "Friends Burial Ground 1663, the walls rebuilt 1847." The walls previously included a stone ledge for seating on the inner side.
Local climate
Friends' Burial Ground sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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