Friends Burial Ground to North of High Sunbrick Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 March 1990. A C17 Burial ground.
Friends Burial Ground to North of High Sunbrick Farm
- WRENN ID
- brooding-spire-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Barrow and Furness MP: Michelle Scrogham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 March 1990
- Type
- Burial ground
- Address
- Friends Burial Ground to North of High Sunbrick Farm, Aldingham
- OS grid reference
- SD 286 739
- Coordinates
- 54.15606, -3.09454
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Friends' Burial Ground is located to the north of High Sunbrick Farm and dates back to the first burial in 1648. The burial ground is enclosed by stone rubble walls that are approximately 2 meters high, forming a square area of 27 meters. The north wall features coping with upright stones, an entrance topped with a flat slab, and short walls extending to the south side, likely serving as a leant-to porch. There is a rock outcrop on the north side of the ground that bears an inscription from the 19th or 20th century, detailing its history. Between 1648 and 1767, a total of 227 members of the Society of Friends were buried here, including the notable Margaret Fox. She was a pioneer of the Society and married George Fox, its founder, in 1669. Margaret Fox passed away in 1702.
Local climate
Friends Burial Ground to North of High Sunbrick Farm sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,650 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 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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