Susan Ackroyd has kindly submitted an extract from the Huddersfield Chronicle dated Thursday 30th August 1851. Each week this newspaper had sections for local areas which included Saddleworth, being in the West Riding of Yorkshire at that time.

The author of the article is discussing a recent visit in which they could not resist the temptation to browse the headstones. Some of the epitaphs piquing their interest enough to mention them.

As part of our overall strategy to care and protect the churchyards, we are digitising our records. The process, as you can imagine is a mammoth undertaking. At the time of writing, we have digitised almost 19,000 burials. It is hoped that by consolidating various sources, such as recorded inscriptions, transcripts of parish records, parish records, family histories, historical societies archives and culminating with condition surveys we will have a full picture of who is buried in the churchyard and where to find them.

Which is fascinating to many of us as we come to understand and appreciate who our descendants are and the story of Saddleworth itself.

The purpose of this website, is to connect the stories of individuals and to know where abouts they are buried. Eventually articles like the one below will only require a quick keyboard search of words and hey presto! a location with all interesting facts can be returned. It is a project of concerted effort by our community in which this will happen.