I recently planned to visit Burngreave Cemetery where some of my relatives are buried. The friends I was staying with in Sheffield expressed horror at the idea, saying that the Burngreave area is almost a "no go" area these days and (jokingly) compared it to Beirut. I never did get to visit the cemetery, but it left me wondering: is the area really that bad?

Burngreave Cemetery is ok I often go there. Often there are only two or three people there. Burngreave seems to have a name worse than it deserves.
Siren

Well I go there everyday to work (a local school not the cemetery) and I have never come to any harm. I wouldn't recommend going there at midnight but then I would not go to any cemetery at midnight!:D

Thanks for the replies. Sorry if I didn't myself clear. It was the Burngreave area as a whole that was said to be dangerous these days, not just the cemetery

i have lived in burngreave for 25 years + since the houses behind the vestry were built , we have moved but still in burngreave

it did go through a very bad time a while a go but now it is like alice in wonderland , a lot quieter

the thing is , people that don't live there , find it easy to bad mouth it ...................
i think people that are only going on how they think is ....... should keep their comments to them selves .if they don't know for deffinate......, as this is what gives an area an in correct status , and people get the wrong idea

no area is perfect these days .....but there is a lot worse than burngreave !!!!!

hope you visit soon

Does anyone have the web details or email address for the above cemetary please?

Hi tiffy

I've a leaflet from the Friends of Burngreave Cemetery and Chapel which mentions a website (non functional) and an email address which I will PM to you.

The chapel had an open afternoon recently, as part of the Sheffield Environment Weeks - it was very interesting and informative. I was pleasantly surprised to hear that John Booth (of Brush House - the old Firth Park school building on Barnsley Road) was reburied there, before Brush House was passed to the city council.

Here's an extract from the leaflet:

'Opened in 1860, the Cemetery is 276 acres of old quarried and mined land laid out with a grid of paths and planted large variety of trees and shrubs.

The chapels (one consecrated and one for 'dissenters') are joined with a carriage arch and 120-foot bell tower. It was designed by Sir William Flockton. It has not been used for services since the late 1980s and is somewhat neglected.

Over 178,000 people are buried here and represent people from all over the world who came to Sheffield to work, mainly in the steel-making and mining industries.

The cemetery, chapel building and two lodge buildings are all Grade II listed and listed in the English Heritage register of historic parks and gardens'

Now, the good news is that the chapel is open every Sunday between 11am and 3pm - not for services, but for a visit and friendly chat. Feel free to pop along. Just tell them I sent you ;)