Old Burial Ground, Arden Policies is a Grade C listed building in the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 September 1980. Graveyard enclosure.

Old Burial Ground, Arden Policies

WRENN ID
swift-bailey-ridge
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park
Constituency
Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
8 September 1980
Type
Graveyard enclosure
OS grid reference
NS 363 843
Coordinates
56.02424, -4.62797
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Old Burial Ground at Arden Policies is an early 19th-century circular stone graveyard enclosure situated on a raised mound to the southeast of Arden House. The site is in a ruinous state and is heavily overgrown with ivy. It features ashlar square gatepiers that have blind arrowslits and low pyramidal caps, with the left gatepier being particularly overgrown.

Local climate

Old Burial Ground, Arden Policies sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,620 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 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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