There is an old graveyard situated on Parkwood Srings,does anyone have any info relating to this site.

Is that the one near the scrapyard?

Do you mean "Wardsend Cemetery"? between Neepsend/owlerton and the bottom of Herries Road (hillsboro' end), under the shadow of Shirecliffe?

Have you looked in the local studies library at Central library in town? there's allsorts of old maps and general info there that may be useful to you. It is a real mine of info! the staff will help, its a good place to start.

I was looking at an old map which covered the parkwood area a little while back, as I was searching around the area where the Kelvin Flats were built, to find where my grandparents lived in the early 1900's. the steep, windy streets there, where the ski slopes area is now looked amazing! like a rabbit warren!

A long time ago, when I was just "a slip of a girl", I lived on Herries Road, and, on a stroll through the cemetery, I was told by my pals that the cemetery was haunted(!) I only walked through it that once; I was too scared to go through it again.... (chuckles at the memory!)

"Under The Shadow Of Shirecliffe"; ooh, that sounds like it'd make a really great title for a novel or a biography, doesn't it...?

Plain Talker

:thumbsup: Tango 2 i just PM'ed you The Yorkshire Paranormal Society will pay this place a visit you are most welcome to join us.

Wardsend Cemetery has a distinct military influence due to its close proximity to Hillsborough Barracks. The obelisk monument commemorates the soldiers of 6th, 19th, 24th, 33rd, 51st, 55th Regiments of Foot, Victorian Army, who died whilst at Hillsborough Barracks during the period 1866 - 1869. A separate grave belongs to Lieutenant George Lambert V.C., an Irishman, born in Markethill, County Armagh, in December 1819. A sergeant in the 84th Regiment (York & Lancaster Regiment), he was promoted twice ‘without purchase’, and was awarded his Victoria Cross for “conspicuous bravery” during the Indian Mutiny at Oonao in 1857. His death was due to ‘the breaking of a blood vessel’ on the parade ground of Hillsborough Barracks on February 10th 1860.

There are also memorials to several soldiers who gave their lives during both world wars.
Some of the 240 victims of The Great Sheffield Flood of the night of 11th/12th of March 1864, when the Dale Dyke reservoir at Bradfield, collapsed, were laid to rest in Wardsend Cemetery, including the children of Paymaster Sergeant Foulds, Isabella, aged 5 and John, aged 3, of Hillsborough Barracks, also Mr. Joseph Goddard and his wife Sarah, of Malin Bridge.

Of the 213 bodies which were found, there were 35 which were buried without being identified. In addition to the 240 people who were drowned there were 50 horses, 38 cows, 8 donkeys, 258 pigs, 267 fowls and 72 tame rabbits allegedly lost!!

Other epitaphs of interest are dedications to a number of Bible readers, one a member of the Philadelphian Wesleyan church; the Secretary of Sheffield Angling Association; widows referred to as relicts, and a reference to a 15 year old boy tragically killed at work in a colliery accident.

Wardsend dates back as far as 1161 and was then called wereldesend.(relating to a forest clearing), by 1336 the spelling had been changed to Werlsend and by 1388 it was call Wordesent.
Wardsend House was built on this site in 1477 and stood for 400 years,before being demolished in 1957.

By 1901 there had been some 20,000 interments on the site and the new area was concecrated in 1859 by Archbishop musgrave of York.
It is said to be the only cemetry in the uk with a railway running through it.

It was also frequented by grave robbers,who sold the bodies to the medical school.

The final burial took place in 1977,when the re-internment of remains from a building site close to the Cathedral took place.
It was officialy closed in 1988.

Its a while since I last visited the site,at this time many of the graves close to the railway line were damaged and open.
The Friends of Wardsend Cemetry have been doing alot of work on the site.

Gosh-wow!

I didn't realise it was still operational all those years ago, when my tale happened....

I did not realise there was so much history and so many tales behind the cemetery!

Thanks, tango2 for that info, it was fascinating reading!

Plain Talker

I did a bit of rumaging around there as a kid and it is really interesting. You can still see the solid base that the little church stood on. The open graves up by the track with the mounds of removed earth still by the side of em always fascinated me as a kid.

It's a bit 'used needley' around there now though. Shame.

why do I get the feeling that Sheffield Forum could easily make up it's own most haunted team????

Moon

Originally posted by Moon Maiden
why do I get the feeling that Sheffield Forum could easily make up it's own most haunted team????

My interest was just the morbid fascination of a young scruffy lad.

:thumbsup: Good work Tango 2, before we have a vigil up there it might be best asking The Friends of Wardsend Cemetry if its ok to visit. What do you think?

wouldnt think it would be a problem,its very public up there,all the paths have been replaced.
Allthough it may be common courtesty to ask,they may even be glad of some further info or investigation.

Ive got a few pics of the site if you want them

Originally posted by tango2
There is an old graveyard situated on Parkwood Srings,does anyone have any info relating to this site.


Wardsend Cemetery (http://www.fowc.i12.com/home.html)

Originally posted by Indigogo
Wardsend Cemetery (http://www.fowc.i12.com/home.html) Big Thankyou Indigogo for the link
:thumbsup: Jon

I used to live above the cemetery and used to walk through it in the early hours as a short cut from Hillsbrough.
It was overgrown and very very spooky then (early 80s) and i came through it again last September during the day and it was all smartend up.
I never realised that the railway ran through it but it does now that tango mentioned it and there is also an American Red Indian burried there to.
He was one of the onterage of Bufflo Bill when he came to Sheffield last century.
He apparrantly came down with a fever and died so he was layed to rest in Wards end.
The cemetery is haunted although i never saw anything when i went through it, I was always eager to get through it and did'nt hang around to find out.

Does anyone remember courting in the meadows or the site of '****ten Entry'?

Had a wander over the 'meadow's' (Shirecliffe down to Hillsborough)...and passed through a really old graveyard....some of the graves going back to the early 1800's.
The place is a shambles...with headstones vandalised,the area is completely overgrown,and littered with burnt out bikes,fridges,tele's,and allsort's of other trash.
Thing is......there were some fresh flowers that had been placed on some of the graves,so it's obviously close to some people's heart's !

Anyone know anything about this old graveyard ?

(it's really close to coopers scrap yard,at the rear of Bassetts)

Just seem's a shame that it's in such a poor state.

I know it's called Wardsend cemetery but don't know if it's still used. Apparently, there are graves there of soldiers from the Hillsborough barracks who died in the Sheffield flood.

I believe there's a Friends of Wardsend Cemetery that tries to do what it can.

--
JGH

Do a search on this forum for Wardsend Cemetary - there has been a couple of threads about it in the past.

Have been there for a look around.

Ayone else ever seen the gravestone that's been chiselled in half so that the railway people could erect the fencing? Not moved a foot or so, just chiselled in half!

I can remember about 25 years ago coming across this place, it was quite creepy being in an overgrown wood with well established tree's and then seeing gravestones in the gloom.

The Sheffield Family History Society did a recording of all the Monumental Inscriptions for this cemetery several years ago so the details for headstones that have been destroyed since then have been preserved. I think there's a transcript in the Local Studies section of the Central Library.

Rumour has it that a lot of the graves are railway workers who died during the construction.

If I remember rightly, the Hillsborough Community Development Trust who are based in Hillsborough Park's walled garden, have a lot to do with Wardsend Cemetary. They do (or used to do anyway) organised walks round there, talking about the history of the place etc. I was led to believe that some restoration work was to take place and it was to gain some kind of status (not sure what) from some group or other.

Sorry this info is a bit sketchy. Maybe you could contact HCDT and ask them.

Does anyone have any info on the old cemetery behind Owlerton stadium, I found a monument dedicated to men of the 14th depot battalion who died between 1866 and 1869 but can't find any details about it.

Try the Sheffield archives on Shoreham St for info... Ring them on 0114 203 9395.

Google's your best mate... :D

there are many threads about it, on the forum, for example

here:-
http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=19816&highlight=wardsend+cemetery

here:-
http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7016&highlight=wardsend+cemetery

and:_

here
http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12056&highlight=wardsend+cemetery

there is a "search site" facility just here:-
<<<<<<<< on the left of your screen, where you can find out if anyone has posted on the subject, previously.

PT

Mod: Threads merged, thanks for the link! :thumbsup:

After having read some of the threads about this place a few weeks ago I went back to see if I could find it again. Scrambled up the very steep hill by the side of the ski village to the top [who put those houses there?] Didn't recognise much until I found the old viewing point and then made my way along the top of the landfill site. Down in the woods found the rows of gravestones and thought that it looked even more eerie than it did several years ago as the woodland is now so dense. I noticed that the trail alongside the river which has been made with a bulldozer? had almost buried some of the stones which I thought was disrespectful to say the least.
Max thoroughly enjoyed wading in the river and as it was a very warm day i was very tempted to join him!!

Thanks for the info.

Originally posted by tango2
Wardsend Cemetery has a distinct military influence due to its close proximity to Hillsborough Barracks. The obelisk monument commemorates the soldiers of 6th, 19th, 24th, 33rd, 51st, 55th Regiments of Foot, Victorian Army, who died whilst at Hillsborough Barracks during the period 1866 - 1869. A separate grave belongs to Lieutenant George Lambert V.C., an Irishman, born in Markethill, County Armagh, in December 1819. A sergeant in the 84th Regiment (York & Lancaster Regiment), he was promoted twice ‘without purchase’, and was awarded his Victoria Cross for “conspicuous bravery” during the Indian Mutiny at Oonao in 1857. His death was due to ‘the breaking of a blood vessel’ on the parade ground of Hillsborough Barracks on February 10th 1860.

There are also memorials to several soldiers who gave their lives during both world wars.
Some of the 240 victims of The Great Sheffield Flood of the night of 11th/12th of March 1864, when the Dale Dyke reservoir at Bradfield, collapsed, were laid to rest in Wardsend Cemetery, including the children of Paymaster Sergeant Foulds, Isabella, aged 5 and John, aged 3, of Hillsborough Barracks, also Mr. Joseph Goddard and his wife Sarah, of Malin Bridge.

Of the 213 bodies which were found, there were 35 which were buried without being identified. In addition to the 240 people who were drowned there were 50 horses, 38 cows, 8 donkeys, 258 pigs, 267 fowls and 72 tame rabbits allegedly lost!!

Other epitaphs of interest are dedications to a number of Bible readers, one a member of the Philadelphian Wesleyan church; the Secretary of Sheffield Angling Association; widows referred to as relicts, and a reference to a 15 year old boy tragically killed at work in a colliery accident.

Wardsend dates back as far as 1161 and was then called wereldesend.(relating to a forest clearing), by 1336 the spelling had been changed to Werlsend and by 1388 it was call Wordesent.
Wardsend House was built on this site in 1477 and stood for 400 years,before being demolished in 1957.

By 1901 there had been some 20,000 interments on the site and the new area was concecrated in 1859 by Archbishop musgrave of York.
It is said to be the only cemetry in the uk with a railway running through it.

It was also frequented by grave robbers,who sold the bodies to the medical school.

The final burial took place in 1977,when the re-internment of remains from a building site close to the Cathedral took place.
It was officialy closed in 1988.

Its a while since I last visited the site,at this time many of the graves close to the railway line were damaged and open.
The Friends of Wardsend Cemetry have been doing alot of work on the site. good research there mate,did you know that the 24 regiment of foot were the ones who fought at rorkes drift? remember the film ? zulu?they won 11 victoria crosses for that action,in the film it was made out they were a welch regiment,but in real life they had been moved to wales only a few weeks previouse to embarkation topafrica,there were in fact less than a couple of dozen welch men in the regiment at the time,theres a monument to a sageant of the 24 just as you walk in the cemetary,and a stone obelisk with names commemorating the men who served in the regiment just a little way up the path,we took photos o it as my mate was serving in the regiment a few years ago and he sent them down to their museum in brecon

As a kid i played with my mates at wardsend, ive been for a walk today with my kids down from Shirecliffe to hillsbrough, i love the view from the top... i must admit it upsets me to see the old Cemetery in the state its in... theres no recpect for the dead at this Cemetery.... i couldnt belive it when i saw a burnt out car half way down the cliff...how did they manage to get a car there???

I stand being corrected but i think Wardsend Cemetery is the only cemetery in the Uk which has a railway line running through it.

You had to go over the 'White Bridge' to the graves at the other side of the track.

From my boyhood memories of the place when there was a chapel on the site.

Happy Days!

http://photobucket.com/albums/v332/WALLBUILDER/Old%20Cemetary/
Scream at me if the link doesn't work but there should be some pics here.
Quite odd seeing the railway line fenced off with graves on the side of the railway track.
The burnt out car looks as though it was more than likely set alight and then left to roll down the hillside if it's the one on the path as from the state of the path I doubt that anyone drove it there.

wardsend was abused by grave robbers in the 1860-1880s as a memorial stone in hillsboro park attests,in the small organic /wildlife area the stone tells of many persons never recoverd after the desecration.. the last remaining horseman of the charge of the light brigade in the crimea was unfortunately drowned as the ship he was insank in a stormjust a small distance from docking and was buried in parkwood/wardsend cemetery and is also remembered by having the first headstone in england to have an enamelled plaque detailing his life/death details.bad luck seems to have been his middle name. also the area was the site of a large electric generator complex like the cooling towers at meadowhall some of the massive cables can be seen on the old lane down to the dog trac.

I used to love it down there as a kid.....round t'waterside as we called it. The path from the hillfoot bridge to herries road. The river used to be all colours of the rainbow!

There used to be a few giant cooling towers along there too.

I especially loved the white bridge and the black bridge. One of them had railings that were collapsing in making things even more claustophobic. Are the bridges still there?

As a young man I used to take a shortcut along there when working nights, and it was pretty spooky. The angle at which the gravestones used to lean coupled with the faint crackle of the overhead electrical wires made even the most rational anti-ghost story bloke like me relieved to get back out onto herries road.

I haven't been along there for 20 years. Has it changed?

Would love to take a look around this place.

Where would be a safe place to park without the fear of leaving the car?

Thanks,
Jane.

Originally posted by tango2
There is an old graveyard situated on Parkwood Srings,does anyone have any info relating to this site.

I understood that it was put into use following the closure of St Phillips Cemetary which occured some time in the late 1940,s

I recall many a spooky evening spent within Wardsend Cemetary using a tombstone as a ooja baord after the sppedaway meetings.

This sounds a lot like the place I mentioned in another thread(The Moor),1946 my bro' and I just released fm Fullwood Homes and going completly wild,would tuck in somewhere near Bassets or the alongside the football grounds and go to the graves at midnight to see the ghosts arrive.We would scare ourselves silly ,having to walk back to Penistone Rd in the dark. One day I may tell you about Cem' #2 Top rd the same big bunch of Chris's would often get sold 3 or 4 times Ooow

Really enjoyed reading this thread, I used to walk through the short cut from shirecliff to hillsbourgh frequently when I was a teenager. I allways had a brisk pace whilst walking past the thickest of the graves and vegitation.
There was a grave just by the bridge that seemed to be sunken/dug out that allways freaked me out.
I was not aware that many of the soilder's from the barracks were buried there. My great grandfather was stationed there thats how my family came to be in sheffield, he was in the mounted artillary and I have a super photo of him on his mount in full uniform and I have his spurr's also. I dont belive he is buried there Infact I am pretty sure he is in the family plot at pitsmoor. I will ask my father for more details next time I see him. It seems a shame that it is so neglected but I suppose there are no longer reletives to tend them

My bro' and I tended as many grave's as possible for 8&10yr old, talk about mixed intentions,any flower's we stole fm cem' #2 and didn't sell,was took to those old grave's and at 1 or 2 flowers per site we spread them over a large area. As I said before, being locked away in Fullwood Homes for 6yrs turned a lot of kids a little strange

Would it be worth my time to go to this cemetary to try & find my family's graves.Does anyone know if there is a map of where individual people are buried?
My Great Great Grandfather Henry Archer (Buried 31/10/1886)
" " " Grandmother Hannah " ( " 31/3/1904 )
" Grandfather Walter Henry " ( " 26/2/1897)

Would it be worth my time to go to this cemetary to try & find my family's graves.Does anyone know if there is a map of where individual people are buried?
My Great Great Grandfather Henry Archer (Buried 31/10/1886)
" " " Grandmother Hannah " ( " 31/3/1904 )
" Grandfather Walter Henry " ( " 26/2/1897)

Try contacting Friends of Wardsend Cemetery,just type Wardsend Cemetery in Google,it's the first on the list.

http://photobucket.com/albums/v332/WALLBUILDER/Old%20Cemetary/
Scream at me if the link doesn't work but there should be some pics here.
Quite odd seeing the railway line fenced off with graves on the side of the railway track.
The burnt out car looks as though it was more than likely set alight and then left to roll down the hillside if it's the one on the path as from the state of the path I doubt that anyone drove it there.

wow, spooky, I must admit i have explored properly around this area but i think if i'd have stumbled upon this lot on me own in the woods when I went exploring not too long ago, i would have been proper spooked!:o

wardsend been taken over by council shafeek mohamad promised in star to have it sorted out

Is this cemetry still open? Is it possible to visit it?

Is this cemetry still open? Is it possible to visit it?Yes, but it is in a poor state - see for example this thread (http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=19816).

anyone know the latest on wardsend cemetery? has it been tidied up now the council have taken it over....

No sign of anything happening yet, but you wouldn't expect action that fast from the council. There was a big Veolia skip by the river yesterday but that may be something to do with the repeated fly-tipping there.

Chris Hobbs' site has the text of the Star article about the Wardsend VC, and the Council taking it over:
link to Chriss Hobbs site (http://www.chrishobbs.com/georgelambert1858.htm)

Hugh

hi popt,iremember the entry and I believe a woman was murdered in there and thats why it was filled in,please correct me if i'm wrong.We played in there when we were kids for hours and hours that is if ivan dint chase us out,in the fifties a grave collapsed and some kids went in and chucked the bones out and hung them up from trees,the police came to shirecliffe school and questioned everyone.remember the cable tubs from the power station that made the muckhills,we used to climb in them for a ride but yu had to jump out before they tipped!

would it be possible to obtain old pics/photos of wardsend cemetery would love to see how it looked in its early years.

Does anyone remember courting in the meadows or the site of '****ten Entry'?

Yes there was a culvert so far up you could hide in. It was below the fish pond, Came out on the other side of Herries Rd. There was a push bike track with a good jump between there and the graveyard. Did you ever have to fetch the ball of the railway line while playing football on the bottom field if you kicked it over you fetch it.

There is an old graveyard situated on Parkwood Srings,does anyone have any info relating to this site.

its been left to vandels and addicts

Is this cemetry still open? Is it possible to visit it?

you can but its shocking

not the best condition

Wardsend Cemetery thread here:-

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=19816

Threads merged, please use the search facility before starting new threads. Thanks.

Had a walk up to the old cemetery in the woods at Neepsend.

I've tried to capture the atmosphere of the place with the processing on these shots.
I'm not sure if they are a bit too dark though.

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http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5103/5612612760_c0f0ef0a9e_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/astraman/5612612760/)
Wardsend Cemetery, Neepsend (1) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/astraman/5612612760/) by capnbugganuts (http://www.flickr.com/people/astraman/), on Flickr

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http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5069/5612617306_31f4b6d1c0_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/astraman/5612617306/) Wardsend Cemetery, Neepsend (3) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/astraman/5612617306/) by capnbugganuts (http://www.flickr.com/people/astraman/), on Flickr

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http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5143/5612614958_75ac2f7128_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/astraman/5612614958/) Wardsend Cemetery, Neepsend (2) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/astraman/5612614958/) by capnbugganuts (http://www.flickr.com/people/astraman/), on Flickr

Thanks for looking and thoughts welcome.

well i really like them the first being my fave. didnt know there was a graveyard at neepsend.

number one is my favourite.
The lighting is spot on .

Very atmospheric, it's a bit creepy down there. I once went with others to search for a grave, but had to leave. I just found it very oppressive.

does anyone know why its been left to go into such dis-repair ?

or does anyone still tend to any graves up there ?

is it the scariest grave yard in england ?

See here

http://www.friendsofwardsendcemetery.btck.co.uk/

does anyone know why its been left to go into such dis-repair ?

or does anyone still tend to any graves up there ?

is it the scariest grave yard in england ?

There are numerous threads about Wardsend Cemetry.
Try link below for a start

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/archive/index.php/t-19816.html

didnt even know it was called wardsend cemetry, it is spookily beautiful though

sadly alot of war vets are laid to rest there so upsetting its been left to get to the state it is now.

sadly alot of war vets are laid to rest there so upsetting its been left to get to the state it is now.

I believe that since the council took over the up keep of it after it was abandoned by the church that some of it has started to be cleared now. There is still a long way to go though...

Mod Note

Threads merged, please use the search facility before creating new threads please.

Does anyone know anything about the history of the cemetry in the woods behind Hillsboro Leisure Centre. I was there on Sunday and did not know of this. The gravestones date from the 1860s, some militry personnel from the 1860 period. The graves are between the River don and the railway on the steep bank rising to Shirecliff

Try here (http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=19816&highlight=wardsend+cemetary). :thumbsup:

There's some history about it here (http://www.friendsofwardsendcemetery.btck.co.uk/People) and some photos here (http://s1096.photobucket.com/albums/g337/NorthernStar1/Wardsend%20Cemetary/?albumview=slideshow):)

i know been there recently myself, i thought it was rather gothically beautiful , but sad how it was deserted

There's some history about it here (http://www.friendsofwardsendcemetery.btck.co.uk/People) and some photos here (http://s1096.photobucket.com/albums/g337/NorthernStar1/Wardsend%20Cemetary/?albumview=slideshow):)
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Superb :)

I want to be buried there - fantastic, if that's the right word, place.

Friends of Wardsend Cemetery have guided tours of the area. They are very interesting and informative.

Some very interesting information http://www.chrishobbs.com/sheffield/agraveaffair1862.htm

Wardsend cemetery is now a landfill site. Well done sheffield.

landfill site?

landfill site?

Yes landfill

http://www.thestar.co.uk:80/community/letters/graves_worth_more_than_this_1_3640345

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=parkwood+landfill+site+sheffield&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-gb&client=safari

I want to be buried there - fantastic, if that's the right word, place.
All i know is Iuse to light littte fires behind the stone's and wait for the ghosts to raise at midnight never saw any but still got brown stains on my underwere :D:D:D

Wardsend cemetery was situated on the top of the hillside between waterside and the old shirecliffe tip . I think it was accessed from the road just beyond the bend at the back of Sheffield Wed . training ground down by the Owlerton stadium .

Yes landfill

http://www.thestar.co.uk:80/community/letters/graves_worth_more_than_this_1_3640345

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=parkwood+landfill+site+sheffield&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-gb&client=safari

No.

That letter in the Star is codswallop.

I walked through Wardsend Cemetery today and was pleasantly surprised.
It's been a long time since I was down there.
A lot of the overgrown graves have now been cleared of vegetation. The path from the bridge is now tarmacked (was just a dirt path when I last visited)
I'm not saying it is restored...just that some work has been done to improve things.
Well done "Friends of Wardsend"......I presume you are responsible.

reflecting back to my younger days when we spent lots of time over that area where the cemetery and the tip are I recall even then that the cemetery was quite overgrown and unkempt . It is not until I read about the history of its incumbents that it makes one realise that respect and regard are very shot lived .
However , in the case of the tip , the question of regard and respect - for the health , safety and well being of the living should be of paramount importance .
Prior to the tip being as vast as it must be after all these years , I suspect a great deal of undesirable information and knowledge regarding what is deep under there is " well and truly covered up " .

I can recall streams from the springs higher up running under the tip . Water ran down the gulleys that were yet to be filled in . The filling in was done from the gas works as well as everywhere else . During the process of manufacturing the gas - as was the case then - there was all sorts of things dropped in . Much of the coke was still hot when it was tipped , along with wooden filter grates from the gas works . As a consequence those parts of the tip used to re-ignite and burn for long enough underground .

I would suggest that if any due regard was to be given to the health, safety and well being of people round the area , then extensive testing and research of the whole area should be a number one priority . The whole result of that research , plus discussion of the future use of the whole and surrounding area ,
should be the subject of a full and open public enquiry , to ensure that all vested interests are aired and there are no" cover ups " as is all to often the case in large projects like this .

been bugging me for a few months now anyone now the history of the graveyard at rear of coopers scrapyard at the left of the five arches allovergrown now howmay /names

been bugging me for a few months now anyone now the history of the graveyard at rear of coopers scrapyard at the left of the five arches allovergrown now howmay /names

Wardsend grave yard l believe

been bugging me for a few months now anyone now the history of the graveyard at rear of coopers scrapyard at the left of the five arches allovergrown now howmay /names

http://www.friendsofwardsendcemetery.btck.co.uk/

I lived half a mile away from Wardsend Cemetery across the river Don at the side of where the new college is now from 1943 until the middle 60s.Our old cottage was part of a water mill built in the late 1700s the goit and dam had been filled in around 1930 so I never saw it.I knew the last family that lived in the house at the cemetery the Grattens I went to school at Hillfoot with Geoff his dad was the gravedigger he had an older brother Allen and sisters also I forget their names it seems such a long time ago!.:):confused:

I've not read all the responses to you question but I know the cemetary quite well. I've not been for a few years though.
It's beneath Parkwood Springs at the back of the Casino on penistone Road. The way I used to get to it was to walk along the riverside path that began near the farfield pub (or is it the owl again?). There used to be some very old industrial buildings there that were allowed to burn down and now it's just a massive open site. Just follow the path along and you will get there eventually. You just sort of happen into it; it's a very peacful place and I remember a grave of somebody there who fought at Gallipoli. I don't remember any really grand monuments there but it really is a piece of local history that just seems to have been forgotten

I remember saying previously , we used to go onto " waterside " by the river Don when I was at hillfoot school . That was on the road from the Farfield . Being youngsters we played on by White Bridge but, being youngsters we never paid any attention to reverential importance of the cemetery , nor its historical importance . Having read the thread postings one can only regret that inconsideration now . However , that is no excuse for the inconsideration and decimation of such a site of historical value and importance by the authorities . Unfortunately , that seems to be the way of our world to-day.