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Wardsend Cemetery
Wardsend Cemetery

Wardsend Cemetery is a Victorian cemetery in the Owlerton district of Sheffield, England, consecrated by the Archbishop of York in 1859 and closed to legal burial in 1968.

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Wardsend Cemetery
Livsey Street, Sheffield Owlerton

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S6 2BL Sheffield, Owlerton
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