Mounting Block in Friends' Burial Ground is a Grade II listed building in the West Lancashire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1968. Mounting block.

Mounting Block in Friends' Burial Ground

WRENN ID
leaning-doorway-yew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Lancashire
Constituency
West Lancashire MP: Ashley Dalton (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 October 1968
Type
Mounting block
Address
Mounting Block in Friends' Burial Ground, Graveyard Lane, Bickerstaffe
OS grid reference
SD 421 045
Coordinates
53.53473, -2.87497
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The mounting block, likely dating from around 1800, is located in the Friends' Burial Ground. It is made of sandstone and features three steps, each formed from a separate rectangular block of stone. One corner of the top step is broken off. The mounting block has been moved to its current position.

Local climate

Mounting Block in Friends' Burial Ground 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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