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Mar 2021
Masham church reveals plans to extend graveyard
St Mary's Church in Masham has begun the process of extending its graveyard to ensure it has the capacity to cope with burials for another 50 years.
The church is negotiating with the Swinton estate to buy 0.7 acres of land next to the current graveyard.
It is also seeking permission to proceed from the Church of England and Harrogate Borough Council.
The extra land, if bought, would accommodate another 813 graves.
Jim Hunter, church warden at St Mary's, told the Stray Ferret the current graveyard was not expected to be full for another two or three years but the process of buying the land and seeking the relevant permissions was lengthy, which was why the matter was being dealt with now.
Anybody who lives in Masham can be buried in the graveyard when they die. The painter Julius Ibbotson is amongst those buried on the site.
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