This is a traditional village graveyard. Small, quiet, attended by sheep and very very old. Apparently there are graves here from the 14th century. It’s hard to confirm as many of the stones have had to survive way too many hard Yorkshire winters, the names and dates are lost in time now. Many graves are unmarked or missing stones.

Time moves on, newer graves are still added here, but the graveyard is filling up. The free ground left for new graves is only the size of a small garden now.

So New Graveyards are being opened up…..

The New Ones around here are still very beautiful, set in beautiful moors countryside. But they are in many ways, VERY different. Neat lines, immaculately well kept grass, symmetrical, concrete paths, tarmac roads.

I was running past one of these new sites recently and I had to stop, yes I had to chuckle. This new Graveyard had a new sign on the Main Entrance Gates.

“One Way System in force in this Graveyard.”

Oh the irony…….

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  5. There’s always humour to be found someplace☺️
    One of my old workplaces was near a church and overlooked an ancient graveyard. I never thought of going down the path to check out the graves but did spend an odd afternoon hour at the balcony looking down those resting places. The immense peace I felt in that fleeting time has always stayed with me.

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  7. Haha… Love the irony! Walking through a rather old graveyard, upon a headstone of a young babe read – “It was the fault of the nursemaid.” I can only imagine the amount of bitterness it took to place this epitaph… Ouch.

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