Quaker Burial Ground, 42-76 (Even Nos) Pleasance is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 December 1974. Burial ground.

Quaker Burial Ground, 42-76 (Even Nos) Pleasance

WRENN ID
forgotten-jamb-tide
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 December 1974
Type
Burial ground
OS grid reference
NT 263 733
Coordinates
55.94741, -3.18158
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Quaker Burial Ground, dating from 1675 to 1680, features a rectangular layout surrounded by a tall, coped rubble wall on the south side and lower rubble walls on the north and east sides. In front of the south wall, there are simple 19th century headstones. The central area is grassed over, and there is a pair of coped gatepiers on the east side, each topped with pyramidal capstones.

Local climate

Quaker Burial Ground, 42-76 (Even Nos) Pleasance sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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