What is recorded here
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.
The graveyard in Eccles was established in the 19th century as an overflow burial site during cholera epidemics that devastated Lancashire, serving as a somber testament to the public health crises of the period.
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