Sharlston cemetery

Introduction

The photograph on this page of Sharlston cemetery by Stephen Craven as part of the Geograph project.

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Sharlston cemetery

Image: © Stephen Craven Taken: 31 Aug 2020

The parish church across the road doesn't have burials so this may have been intended as a detached parish burial ground, I'm not sure. It was however closed to new burials by the Burial Grounds (Sharlston) Order 1960. There is a subsequent extension that seems still to have space Image

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Image Location

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Latitude
53.667497
Longitude
-1.416512