disused burial ground
Posted: 04 Feb 2012, 22:53
Some of you will be aware of Seddon Homes’s proposed development of 50+ new houses on the site of the disused Silentnight offices in Salterforth.
This development as it stands will increase the size of my village by nearly 50%. Part of the development covers the car park area closest to the village centre, built over the location of what was Broadstones Farm.
When Kelbrook New Rd was built rumour has it that 3 graves were exhumed in what was/is an old burial ground adjacent to Broadstones.
Does anyone out there know anything about this graveyard? The implications re- said burials are very important to my village.Kathryn Hughs, Pendle planning officer, seemed content at a recent village meeting with the news that Lancashire’s Archaeologist Record has no knowledge of this burial site. How would Lancashire know? Salterforth is, was and as far as I am concerned always will be in Yorkshire.
Please help. We don’t have long, area planning meeting is at the end of this month.
This development as it stands will increase the size of my village by nearly 50%. Part of the development covers the car park area closest to the village centre, built over the location of what was Broadstones Farm.
When Kelbrook New Rd was built rumour has it that 3 graves were exhumed in what was/is an old burial ground adjacent to Broadstones.
Does anyone out there know anything about this graveyard? The implications re- said burials are very important to my village.Kathryn Hughs, Pendle planning officer, seemed content at a recent village meeting with the news that Lancashire’s Archaeologist Record has no knowledge of this burial site. How would Lancashire know? Salterforth is, was and as far as I am concerned always will be in Yorkshire.
Please help. We don’t have long, area planning meeting is at the end of this month.