Entrance to Upperby Cemetery

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Entrance to Upperby Cemetery

Image: © Rose and Trev Clough Taken: 7 Aug 2014

Vehicular access point in Manor Road. The cemetery is run by Carlisle City Council. It opened in 1881, the municipal cemetery being an extension to the parish cemetery. In the early 1930s the City Council of the day agreed to a request that Cemetery Road, Upperby be renamed Manor Road. Information from Carlisle Encyclopaedia http://www.carlisleshistory.co.uk/page23.htm .

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