Urquhart Old Burial Ground is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1971. Burial ground.

Urquhart Old Burial Ground

WRENN ID
little-column-hyssop
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
25 March 1971
Type
Burial ground
OS grid reference
NH 580 584
Coordinates
57.59387, -4.37642
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Urquhart Old Burial Ground is a dyked enclosure featuring pointed copes and gravestones from the 18th and 20th centuries. The entrance is marked by square ashlar gatepiers topped with pyramidal copes.

Local climate

Urquhart Old Burial Ground sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,070 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 42 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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