Castleford Cemetery

Introduction

The photograph on this page of Castleford Cemetery by David Pickersgill as part of the Geograph project.

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Castleford Cemetery

Image: © David Pickersgill Taken: 9 Sep 2007

A corner of the northern half of the cemetery with just a few of the Victorian gravestones remaining. The obelisk on the left is a memorial to members of the Lumb family of bottlemakers, one among the many 19th century Castleford industrialists whose graves can be found here. Fawcett's maltkilns in the background.

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Image Location

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Latitude
53.728047
Longitude
-1.341102