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Graveyard, Eccles blue plaque

Blue plaque

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This blue commemorative plaque records: The Graveyard In the 19th Century, Lancashire, including Eccles, was hit by several waves of Cholera. Here the town built an overflow graveyard to cope with the victims.

From the Open Plaques record 31640

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