St David Churchyard
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St David Churchyard

Holmbridge, Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England

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    Coordinates: 53.55710, -1.81929
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The building of St. David's Church commenced in 1838, and it was consecrated in 1840. The first burial was April 1840 of four year old William Leek. In those days the cost of a morning funeral was 10s.

When the Bilberry Resevoir burst its banks on February 5th 1852, the church was flooded to five feet. In the center of the aisle was the body of a goat which had been washed from Upper Digley Mill and witin a few feet of it on the seat of one of the pews, lay the coffin and remains of a full grown man, which, with other bodies not found, had been washed from the graves by the whirlpools formed by the current as it passed through the chuchyard. But the church still stood. On February 9th the bodies of 14 victims of the disaster were interred in the cemetery.

The flood of June 1944 caused the deaths of nine people, and damaged walls and driveways. Due to the war, repairs were delayed.

St. Davids celebrated 150 years of service in 1990.





The building of St. David's Church commenced in 1838, and it was consecrated in 1840. The first burial was April 1840 of four year old William Leek. In those days the cost of a morning funeral was 10s.

When the Bilberry Resevoir burst its banks on February 5th 1852, the church was flooded to five feet. In the center of the aisle was the body of a goat which had been washed from Upper Digley Mill and witin a few feet of it on the seat of one of the pews, lay the coffin and remains of a full grown man, which, with other bodies not found, had been washed from the graves by the whirlpools formed by the current as it passed through the chuchyard. But the church still stood. On February 9th the bodies of 14 victims of the disaster were interred in the cemetery.

The flood of June 1944 caused the deaths of nine people, and damaged walls and driveways. Due to the war, repairs were delayed.

St. Davids celebrated 150 years of service in 1990.





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