Dr. Cullen Burial Enclosure, Kirknewton Burial Ground is a Grade B listed building in the West Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 January 1971.
Dr. Cullen Burial Enclosure, Kirknewton Burial Ground
- WRENN ID
- hushed-wicket-thunder
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lothian
- Constituency
- Livingston MP: Gregor Poynton (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 January 1971
- OS grid reference
- NT 114 669
- Coordinates
- 55.88743, -3.41756
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Dated 1864, the Dr. Cullen Burial Enclosure is an oblong structure within Kirknewton Burial Ground. It is built of snecked rubble. A prominent doorway features a segmental broken pediment and a bronze relief depicting Dr. Cullen. A memorial panel is set into the relief. Dr. Cullen of Ormiston (1710-90) was a physician, botanist, philosopher, and agricultural improver.
Local climate
Dr. Cullen Burial Enclosure, Kirknewton Burial Ground sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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