Waterloo Cairn, Kinrara is a Grade B listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. Cairn.
Waterloo Cairn, Kinrara
- WRENN ID
- brooding-belfry-dawn
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Cairngorms National Park
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- Type
- Cairn
- OS grid reference
- NH 872 086
- Coordinates
- 57.15463, -3.8654
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Waterloo Cairn in Kinrara is a memorial built in August 1815 to honor Robert Macara of the 42nd Royal Highlanders, Colonel John Cameron of the 92nd or Gordon Highlanders, and their brave countrymen who fell at the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815. The cairn is constructed from granite rubble and features an ashlar basket-arched niche with an inset inscribed plaque.
Local climate
Waterloo Cairn, Kinrara sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 82 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 64 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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