Restorative Works Begin
Monk Fryston Cemetery
Thursday, 13 March 2025
Did you know that Monk Fryston Cemetery is a private cemetery serving the Parish of Monk Fryston and adjoining Parish's of Hillam and Burton Salmon? The cemetery was gifted to Monk Fryston Parish in 1874 by Benjamin Hemsworth Esq of Monk Fryston Hall and is the private burial place and the site of a walled memorial chapel ground for the Hemsworth Family, and for the burials and interments for residents within the three Parish's.
Whilst the cemetery land itself is owned by Monk Fryston Parish Council, the management of the cemetery is governed by a Joint Burial Committee of representatives from each parish council.
The Joint Burial Committee (JBC) meets on a regular basis to govern the management of the cemetery in Monk Fryston and ensure it is a welcoming and looked after cemetery, to honour those laid to rest and provide a welcoming place for people to visit their loved ones.
In the coming year, our focus will be on making improvements and repairs to improve accessibility to the cemetery, providing additional seating throughout the cemetery enabling visitors to rest and reflect, removing overgrown shrubbery and maintaining existing shrubs and trees to support biodiversity and of course assessing the ongoing need for future burial space and developing future plans.
Visitors and residents will see that work will begin in March 2025 to some of the oldest memorials in the cemetery as we begin to repair and make safe any perished or laid down headstones and kerbs. Some of these headstones date back to the last century and are so large that they would have been placed into the cemetery using horse and carts.
We would ask that any visitors take extra care when visiting the cemetery during this time whilst we begin our series of improvements and restorative works to preserve our beautiful village cemetery.
Any enquiries should be directed to the Clerk of the Joint Burial Committee on email [email protected]
Contact Information
The Clerk to the Joint Burial Committee
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Monk Fryston, Leeds, North Yorkshire
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