Lydgate Graves and Enclosing Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 October 1984. Graveyard.
Lydgate Graves and Enclosing Wall
- WRENN ID
- kindled-foundation-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Constituency
- Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 October 1984
- Type
- Graveyard
- Address
- Lydgate Graves and Enclosing Wall, the Lydgate, Eyam, Derbyshire Dales
- OS grid reference
- SK 220 763
- Coordinates
- 53.28334, -1.67054
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lydgate Graves and Enclosing Wall is a pair of plague gravestones located in the parish of Eyam. The gravestones date from 1666 and the early 20th century, constructed from gritstone and limestone rubble. The southern gravestone is inscribed 'HERE LYETH BVR THE BODY OF GEORGE DARBY WHO DIED JULY 4TH, 1666', while the northern gravestone reads 'MARY, THE DAUGHTER OF GEORGE DARBY, DYED SEPTEMBER 4TH, 1666'. The gravestones are surrounded by a rubble enclosing wall topped with rubble copings.
Local climate
Lydgate Graves and Enclosing Wall sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% 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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