Bankhead Burial Ground is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971.
Bankhead Burial Ground
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-pier-dale
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1971
- OS grid reference
- NY 252 963
- Coordinates
- 55.25564, -3.17733
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Bankhead Burial Ground is an 18th and 19th century burial ground enclosed by a rubble-built wall. The burial ground is quadrangular in shape and has a gateway on the west side, featuring a modern gate set on timber posts. Numerous headstones are present, with some displaying good-quality artisan sculpture. An Ordnance Survey map indicates the former location of a chapel at Bankhead within the burial ground. The statutory address of the burial ground is Bankhead Burial Ground.
Local climate
Bankhead Burial Ground sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,240 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 70 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 43 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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