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Fancy a graveyard?

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  • GDB2222
    GDB2222 Posts: 26,780 Forumite
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    No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?
  • Strapped
    Strapped Posts: 8,158 Forumite
    GDB2222 wrote: »

    I can't think why ;)

    Seriously, who wants to go digging up people's remains in the interest of "redevelopment"?!
    They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. -- Plato
  • GDB2222
    GDB2222 Posts: 26,780 Forumite
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    I haven't been there - is it full?

    Put all the monuments on their backs, then tarmac it over without disturbing the graves. Would make an excellent car park.
    No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?
  • Kavanne wrote: »
    I wouldn't move into a house that I knew was built on a graveyard!!

    Why not? There are probably people buried all over the place in the UK.
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • wallbash
    wallbash Posts: 17,775 Forumite
    Disused Methodist Chapel , was bought a few years back. Grave yard 'contents' were moved. They had to put up tall barriers to restrict any watching. But we could see from our house over the barrier... but didn't see much:eek:, The grave stones were re-erected in one small corner , to provide a small memorial garden, visible from the road.

    Nice house was then built and livid in for a couple of years. Sold successfully last year.
    Someone made a nice profit.
  • fitzmum
    fitzmum Posts: 229 Forumite
    Ah no, I don't think so....look what happened here

    http://www.thecobrasnose.com/xxghost/remember.html
  • mezelks
    mezelks Posts: 269 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Used to have a friend that lived next to a church, the gate to her garden was through the churchyard.
    I couldn't do it myself though...
  • Kavanne wrote: »
    I wouldn't move into a house that I knew was built on a graveyard!!

    When we lived in Lancashire, the council removed and reburied all the bones from an old graveyard and a well known store was built on the land.
    RENTING? Have you checked to see that your landlord has permission from their mortgage lender to rent the property? If not, you could be thrown out with very little notice.
    Read the sticky on the House Buying, Renting & Selling board.


  • A few years ago there was an old chapel for sale in an area I was looking in and the garden had some graves in it. Part of the conditions listed on the EA details, was that the property owner had to maintain the graves and allow relatives to visit the graves.
    RENTING? Have you checked to see that your landlord has permission from their mortgage lender to rent the property? If not, you could be thrown out with very little notice.
    Read the sticky on the House Buying, Renting & Selling board.


  • SailorSam
    SailorSam Posts: 22,754 Forumite
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    It says it's been out of service for a while.
    But it does'nt mention if the former occupants have moved out.
    Liverpool is one of the wonders of Britain,
    What it may grow to in time, I know not what.

    Daniel Defoe: 1725.
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