Fancy a graveyard?

Davesnave

As a child, I lived next to the town church and graveyard. The soil height was about 1.25 metres above the paths, though originally, it was claimed, they'd all been on the same level. Even as a child, I didn't buy this, as it seemed obvious that the input in terms of coffins and bodies, which would rot away, could not account for that huge increase in volume.

Either way, the churchyard didn't bother me. Being close to the town square, it was used a lot for courting, so we knew any stange noises emanating from there were probably nothing more than youths canoodling, rather than the ghouls ....er....doing whatever ghouls do!

Strapped

I drove past this place yesterday on the way to the sales and shuddered. It's really tiny, BUT - it is right up against a big modern block of flats. If I lived there I'd be tempted to club together with the other residents and try to buy it, esp. if not all the flats have parking. There are no headstones or anything so perhaps parking on top wouldn't be too disrespectful.

Grade_A_Reject

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Why not? There are probably people buried all over the place in the UK.

I'm just hoping the police never dig up my patio.

Ranger8

Its got to be true that time is a great healer (or short memories), I live in a very large cemetery (my job,not by choice) and to see how families revere their graves,(the staff can`t even walk on some of them to cut the grass) its very hard to believe that disused cemeteries can be sold off for any purpose and its remains possibly disinterred because a period of time has elapsed.