Overview
Farthing Down is recorded as Cemetery (period Unknown) in Dumfries And Galloway by Historic Environment Scotland. The source records its period as unknown. A cemetery is ground set aside for burial, preserving where a community placed and remembered its dead.
History checked 16 August 2026 against the named sources below.
Places near here
- Regular aggregate field system, associated trackway and Anglo-Saxon barrow field on Farthing Downs, 490m east of Hooley Farmmonumentunder 0.1 miles
- Happy Valley & Farthing Downs Nature Trailwalkunder 0.1 miles
- Millenium Cairnmonument0.2 miles
- Farthing Downsattraction0.2 miles
- The Follyforest0.2 miles
- Farthing Downs Tree Beltforest0.2 miles
- New Hillattraction0.4 miles
- Netherne Village Football and Social Clubattraction0.6 miles
- Netherne Hospital Cemeterymemorial0.6 miles
- Three Cornered Shawforest0.6 miles
- Boxers Woodforest0.6 miles
- Children's playground — London Borough of Croydonattraction0.6 miles
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