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Shap Cemetery

Memorials	:	0
Location	:	Shap, Eden District, England
Coordinate	:	54.5323200, -2.6711700
Description	:	The cemetery is 200 metres away from Saint Michael’s Churchyard in Shap, to the east of the village. In the North East corner of the cemetery is the Mardale Burial Ground, where a number of bodies exhumed from the village of Mardale were reinterred when the structural remains of the small farming community were “drowned” in 1935 so that the level of Haweswater could be raised to provide water for Manchester. Most of the village's buildings were blown up by the Royal Engineers, who used them for demolition practice. Some 97 sets of remains were disinterred from the churchyard and transferred to... Read More	The cemetery is 200 metres away from Saint Michael’s Churchyard in Shap, to the east of the village. In the North East corner of the cemetery is the Mardale Burial Ground, where a number of bodies exhumed from the village of Mardale were reinterred when the structural remains of the small farming community were “drowned” in 1935 so that the level of Haweswater could be raised to provide water for Manchester. Most of the village's buildings were blown up by the Royal Engineers, who used them for demolition practice. Some 97 sets of remains were disinterred from the churchyard and transferred to Shap. The ruins of the abandoned village occasionally reappear when the water level in Haweswater Reservoir is low.

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Latitude: 54.5323200
Longitude: -2.6711700

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1. St. Michael‘s Churchyard
Shap, Eden District, England
Coordinate: 54.5314090, -2.6754280

2. Shap Abbey
Shap, Eden District, England
Coordinate: 54.5301890, -2.6999250

3. St Mary Churchyard
Thrimby, Eden District, England
Coordinate: 54.5708750, -2.6782120

4. St Patrick Church Cemetery
Bampton Grange, Eden District, England
Coordinate: 54.5565000, -2.7384500

5. Bampton New Cemetery
Bampton Grange, Eden District, England
Coordinate: 54.5566033, -2.7384797

6. St Patrick Churchyard
Bampton Grange, Eden District, England
Coordinate: 54.5553000, -2.7413640

8. St Lawrence Crosby Ravensworth
Crosby Ravensworth, Eden District, England
Coordinate: 54.5276540, -2.5859000

9. St Barnabas Cemetery
Great Strickland, Eden District, England
Coordinate: 54.6002670, -2.6794060

10. St. Lawrence Churchyard
Morland, Eden District, England
Coordinate: 54.5964730, -2.6235880

11. All Saints Churchyard
Orton, Eden District, England
Coordinate: 54.4694510, -2.5845290

12. St Cuthbert Churchyard
Cliburn, Eden District, England
Coordinate: 54.6138700, -2.6399030

13. Saint Peter's Churchyard
Askham, Eden District, England
Coordinate: 54.6077420, -2.7476530

14. St. Michael Churchyard
Lowther, Eden District, England
Coordinate: 54.6129190, -2.7462760

15. All Saints Churchyard
Bolton, Eden District, England
Coordinate: 54.6043250, -2.5599880

16. St Peter's Churchyard
Great Asby, Eden District, England
Coordinate: 54.5134470, -2.4946230

17. St. James Churchyard
Tebay, Eden District, England
Coordinate: 54.4338540, -2.5931330

18. Saint Cuthbert's Churchyard
Clifton, Eden District, England
Coordinate: 54.6361620, -2.7266804

19. Saint James Churchyard
Temple Sowerby, Eden District, England
Coordinate: 54.6378210, -2.6033040

20. St. Lawrence Churchyard
Appleby-in-Westmorland, Eden District, England
Coordinate: 54.5781650, -2.4915290

21. St Michael Churchyard
Kirkby Thore, Eden District, England
Coordinate: 54.6272940, -2.5621770

22. Eden Valley Crematorium
Temple Sowerby, Eden District, England
Coordinate: 54.6451850, -2.6237780

23. St Michael Churchyard
Appleby-in-Westmorland, Eden District, England
Coordinate: 54.5731360, -2.4829400