Residents to Buy 200-Year-Old Victorian Cemetery to Stop It Being Sold Off to Housing Developers: ‘This Is Our Pride and Joy’

Residents to Buy 200-Year-Old Victorian Cemetery to Stop It Being Sold Off to Housing Developers: ‘This Is Our Pride and Joy’
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A group of residents is set to buy an abandoned Victorian graveyard to stop it from being sold off to housing developers.

The Chapel Street Cemetery in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, opened in 1823 and contains the graves of around 891 of the city’s former inhabitants. Those interred in the grounds include the former Victorian mill owners and civic dignitaries who helped found the modern-day city.