Quaker Burial Ground Walls is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1970. Burial ground walls.
Quaker Burial Ground Walls
- WRENN ID
- frozen-trefoil-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1970
- Type
- Burial ground walls
- Address
- Quaker Burial Ground Walls, Claife, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- SD 358 980
- Coordinates
- 54.37392, -2.9888
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Quaker Burial Ground walls date back to 1658, with later extensions added to the south, enclosing an area measuring approximately 15 meters by 40 meters. The walls are constructed of stone rubble and surround the burial ground on all four sides, with an entrance located on the north side. The inner face of the north wall features stone benches, and there are remains of similar benches on the inner face of the east wall at the northern end. The entrance is marked by a stone lintel with a slate drip course and 20th-century paired doors. The land for the burial ground was purchased in 1658, and an indenture describing it is dated 1669. This site is recognized as a very early example of a burial ground for the Society of Friends.
Local climate
Quaker Burial Ground Walls sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,530 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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