Friends' Burial Ground is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 March 1990. A C17 to C19 Burial ground.
Friends' Burial Ground
- WRENN ID
- ancient-terrace-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Barrow and Furness MP: Michelle Scrogham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 March 1990
- Type
- Burial ground
- Address
- Friends' Burial Ground, Dunnerdale-With-Seathwaite, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- SD 203 934
- Coordinates
- 54.33039, -3.22578
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Friends' Burial Ground is a burial site used by the Society of Friends from the 17th century to the 19th century. It is constructed of stone rubble and is a square enclosure measuring approximately 15 meters on each side. The walls are about 2 meters high and feature an entrance opening to the north, which has a flat stone above it. Inside, there are stone benches along the inner faces of the walls.
Local climate
Friends' Burial Ground sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,610 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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