Wardsend Cemetery in Sheffield
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Wardsend Cemetery in Sheffield
Image: © Dave Pickersgill Taken: 22 Jun 2012
Wardsend Cemetery in Sheffield. This overgrown Victorian Cemetery is less than 5 minutes walk from Penistone Road, one of the main routes out of the city centre. This cemetery is the last resting place of over 30,000, including military personnel from the nearby 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.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.408423
Longitude
-1.489259