Description
By 1824 it had become impossible to create new graves in the St Chad’s Old Churchyard. A plot of land to the west of the church was purchased to create a new cemetery. Now known as the Lower Churchyard it was opened in 1824 and, although it contained over 1400 plots, by the 1850s it was also full. This booklet contains a map of the plots as originally laid out in 1824 and the surnames of the families that purchased each plot. A list of the gravestones and their inscriptions has yet to be produced.
