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Other Places of Worship in this Area Dronfield, Shaun Hadley Room (Civic Hall) (0.25m.) Dronfield, Dronfield Methodist Church (0.28m.) Dronfield, St John's Church Hall (0.31m.) Dronfield, Kingdom Hall (1950s) (0.32m.) Dronfield, Dronfield Baptist Church (0.32m.) Dronfield, St John the Baptist's Church (0.32m.) Dronfield, Oaks Community Church (0.33m.) Dronfield, Dronfield United Reformed Church (formerly Salem Chapel) (0.33m.) Dronfield, Wesleyan Methodist Chapel (Demolished) (0.41m.) Dronfield, Lea Road Methodist Church (Demolished) (0.43m.) Dronfield, Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses (0.52m.) Dronfield, Dronfield Hill Top United Reformed Church (Demolished) (0.53m.) Note: distances (in miles) are calculated as the crow flies; it may be further by road or on foot.

Default Image We do not have a Photograph at present. Image by courtesy of openclipart.org Burial Ground, Dronfield Burial Ground, Gosforth Lane (formerly Farwater Lane), Dronfield, Derbyshire. Church History This Cemetery or Burial Ground was founded before 1877, but we understand it was closed before 1963. This was a small square Burial Ground marked in the north-west corner of a field, a short distance south, and opposite the junction of what was then Farwater Lane with Cross Lane. It can be seen for the first time on Old Maps of 1877-1882, in an area which by Maps of 1963-1971 show have been laid out with the present road system, by which time the Burial Ground (understandably) had disappeared. The site of the burial ground is roughly underneath what is now Hanbury Close. The new housing may have coincided with the renaming of this portion of Farwater Lane to Gosforth Lane, and of Cross Lane to Gomersal Lane - so called, presumably as it was the site of Gomersal Colliery (but also Fallswood Colliery). None of the Maps indicate what denomination the Burial Ground might have been. It certainly seems to have operated concurrently with Dronfield Municipal Cemetery, which opened in 1877. However Dronfield almost certainly had a Friends Meeting House, as "over forty people were hauled out of a meeting at Dronfield in 1661", according to the first Book of Sufferings, so it may have been Quaker; and White's Directory of 1857 refers to a chapel "erected by the Society of Friends, several years ago", which had been adopted by Wesleyan Methodists. Denomination Now or formerly a Cemetery (Quaker?). In most cases this will be a record of its original consecration. Maps This Cemetery was located at OS grid reference SK3493478040. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window: Burial Ground, Dronfield shown on a Google Map. Places of Worship in Dronfield shown on a Google Map. Streetmap.co.uk (arrow on map shows the Place of Worship's location) (verified 2018-10-15) Bing (Ordnance Survey option) (verified 2018-10-13) Bing Maps ('Bird's Eye' View) (verified 2018-10-15) Ordnance Survey "getamap" (NB some of the 'Change Map' options may require a subscription) (verified 2018-10-15) OpenStreetMap (Maps © OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA) (verified 2018-10-15) A Vision of Britain Through Time - useful for Boundary Changes (verified 2018-10-15) www.magic.gov.uk (Modern Maps with various overlays) (verified 2018-10-15) Information last updated on 11 Aug 2011 at 10:40.

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This Report was created 29 Dec 2024 - 09:21:14 GMT from information held in the Derbyshire section of the Places of Worship Database. This was last updated on 13 Oct 2021 at 14:33.