- Wardsend Cemetery has stood on its site by the River Don for the last 160 years. This cemetery is the last resting place of nearly 30...
- Habitats & wildlife Wardsend Cemetery occupies a steep slope on the east side of the River Don and is intersected by the Sheffield to Stocksbridge railway line.
- Wardsend Cemetery, located off Livesey Street, has 16 official war graves from World War One, and 19 more men who died are included on family memorials.
- This, it was said, was to allow the bodysnatchers at the nearby Wardsend Cemetery to carry out their grisly work, unable to see when the witching hour had come.
- Wardsend Cemetery was opened on 21st June 1857 as the burial ground for St. Philip’s Churh on Infirmary Road which is now demolished. The Rev.
- There’s more to the history of Wardsend than the often-told story of the 1862 riot. The cemetery is a chronicle of ordinary and extraordinary Sheffield people.
- ‘Excellent tour of Wardsend Cemetery – like entering a different world’ also Walkley. ‘Very interesting trip round’ Barnsley – 10 miles away.
- Wardsend Cemetery is a Victorian cemetery in the Owlerton district of Sheffield, England, consecrated by the Archbishop of York in 1859 and closed to legal burial...
- In the depth of Sheffield’s Parkwood Springs, hidden beneath the sprawling vegetation is the former Wardsend Cemetery.