Tombstone 40 Yards West of Tower is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1984. Tombstone.
Tombstone 40 Yards West of Tower
- WRENN ID
- vacant-courtyard-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1984
- Type
- Tombstone
- OS grid reference
- TL 589 660
- Coordinates
- 52.26977, 0.32739
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This tombstone, made of limestone, is located approximately 40 yards west of the tower in Burwell. It features a large winged heart with flames, along with a skull and crossbones. There is a modern inscription on the back that commemorates the death of seventy-eight people in a barn fire while they were attending a puppet show, with the date '8 September 1727' noted.
Local climate
Tombstone 40 Yards West of Tower sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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