Heptonstall Graveyard



Both churches – St Thomas the Apostle Church and St Thomas à Becket – share the same graveyard.

There are an estimated 100,000 burials in the old graveyard which lies between the 2 Churches.

Old Section

The following people, and/or members of their family, were buried in the Old Section




The Gibson family of Heptonstall

Thomas Ackroyd

Rodger Baldwin
Thomas Bolton
John Bourn
Thomas Brigg
Caleb Broadley
Edward Broadley

Rev James Charnock
Rev John Charnock
Rev Joseph Charnock
Samuel Chatburn
Jeremiah Cherry
Thomas Cherry
Jonathan Collinge
Champion Crabtree
James Crabtree
Jonas Crook
Thomas Crossley
William Crossley

Luke Dewhirst
William Dugdale

John Eastwood

William Farrar
Clara daughter of James Fielding

John Gill
Charles Greenwood
Alice wife of Greenwood Greenwood
Greenwood Greenwood
Mercy  Greenwood
Grace wife of Paul Greenwood
Grace wife of William Greenwood




John Haigh
John Haigh
George Halstead
John Halstead
William Halstead
Bernard Hartley
David Hartley
David Hartley
Michael Heaton
Jonathan Horsfall
Luke Horsfall
Richard Horsfall
Richard Horsfall
William Horsfall
William Lister Horsfall

Roland Gomm Marshall
William Mitchell
William Mitchell

Richard Naylor
Susey wife of William Nutter

Rufus Pickles
Sylvia Plath

Elijah Redman
Simeon Redman

Christopher Shackleton
Roger Shaw
John Speak
Thomas Spencer
Laurence Stansfeld
Thomas Stansfeld
Thomas Stansfeld
James Stansfield
John Stansfield
Jonathan Stansfield
Jonathan Stansfield



Jonathan Stansfield
Absalom Stott
John Stott
Abraham Sunderland
Abraham Crabtree Sunderland
Henry Sunderland
Crossley Sutcliffe
Henry Sutcliffe
John Sutcliffe
John Sutcliffe
John Sutcliffe
John Sutcliffe
Dr John Uttley Sutcliffe
Richard Sutcliffe
Richard Sutcliffe
Richard Sutcliffe
Richard Sutcliffe
Robert Sutcliffe
Thomas Sutcliffe
Rev Tobit Sutcliffe
Rev William Sutcliffe
William Sutcliffe
William Sutcliffe
William Henry Sutcliffe

Robert Arnold Thomas

John Uttley
Jonas Uttley

John Varley

Richard Wadsworth
Sarah wife of Richard Wadsworth
Zachariah Wadsworth
George Wheelhouse
George Wheelhouse
John Wheelhouse
Samuel Wheelhouse
William Wheelhouse

 

and others were buried inside the Church.

In 1911, Gamaliel Sutcliffe gave land for a new graveyard and the old graveyard was closed to new burials in 1915.

New Section

The following people, and/or members of their family, were buried in the New Section, also known as The Cemetery


 

Some of the monumental inscriptions in the graveyard are shown in the book entitled Burials at the Chapels of Heptonstall & Cross Stone and at Memorial Inscriptions from the gravestones at Heptonstall churchyard on the Hebden Bridge Local History Section websitehist


See Chantry House, Heptonstall



© Malcolm Bull 2024
Revised 17:41 / 12th March 2024 / 17985

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