Gravestone pathway, Ballast Hills
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Gravestone pathway, Ballast Hills
Image: © Andrew Curtis Taken: 28 Mar 2010
Ballast Hills was once a notable landmark created with the dumped ballast of returning colliers. The site later become an important non-conformist burial-ground from C17th until its closure in 1853. Today, the area is a park Image, with some paths created using the graveyard headstones. Tyne and Wear HER (1597): Ouseburn, Ballast Hills Graveyard http://www.twsitelines.info
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Image Location
Latitude
54.972254
Longitude
-1.586781