Walls Enclosing 3 Side of Friends' Burial Ground, with Pair of Gatepiers and Gates is a Grade II listed building in the West Lancashire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1968. Burial ground enclosure.

Walls Enclosing 3 Side of Friends' Burial Ground, with Pair of Gatepiers and Gates

WRENN ID
forbidden-transept-yarrow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Lancashire
Constituency
West Lancashire MP: Ashley Dalton (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 October 1968
Type
Burial ground enclosure
Address
Walls Enclosing 3 Side of Friends' Burial Ground, with Pair of Gatepiers and Gates, Graveyard Lane, Bickerstaffe
OS grid reference
SD 421 046
Coordinates
53.53497, -2.8748
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The walls enclosing three sides of the Friends' Burial Ground date from 1880 and earlier. This burial ground was acquired by the Quakers in 1665. The walls are constructed of squared sandstone blocks. The wall on the south-east side was rebuilt in 1880 and features saddlebacked coping. In the center, there are gatepiers with a square plan, cornices, and pyramidal caps. The gates are made of wrought iron. Additionally, low retaining walls with copings are present on the north-east and north-west sides.

Local climate

Walls Enclosing 3 Side of Friends' Burial Ground, with Pair of Gatepiers and Gates sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,140 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% 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 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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