Living next door to a graveyard

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Found what looks like a lovely house online (ticks all our boxes)... BUT it is next door to a burial site (developed old church building now flats is next door but the churchyard/burial site remains. My first thoughts are "creepy", but a few friends have said it wouldn't bother them... curious to know if anyone has lived next to a burial/churchyard, or dismissed a property because of this?

The churchyard is not under the back garden, it's a building away... I doubt that would be an issue... although I don't know much about soil, etc. Would it be an issue still?

I lived next door and overlooking a graveyard for nearly 30 years. It was LOVELY. Quiet and peaceful and lots of wildlife. Never bothered me at all (it was a little Saxon church, so very very old). I still walk past it at night sometimes and it's wonderful and tranquil (although I do admit that I still jump if the dog pulls to go in through the gate at night, but it's usually hedgehogs she's after).

Do some research - does the location attract undesirable behaviour?

what? The house is not in the cemetery, and not within the boundary of the cemetery. The OP wouldn’t be sharing, in any shape or form, the soil with the deceased.

That's what I am hoping... it has a lovely established kitchen garden in the photographs!! Kind of gone off the idea of plucking up those carrots now!

I live in a property opposite and overlooking a church graveyard. The listed church was knocked down a few years ago but the graveyard still exists and I walk over there with my dog every day. Never had no issues apart from the graveyard attracts the undesirables and the drinkers. I would be more concerned about them than the dead folk. I never give it a second thought.

you’d be sharing the soil with the deceased

😆you know you're sharing every cubic inch of soil in the country with all kinds of deceased animals, right? What is it you imagine is going to happen? How far away do "the deceased" have to be, exactly, for you to be happy?

The people in the cemetery are buried in coffins, in any case. They aren't just mingling with the soil.

Wouldn't bother me at all! In fact I would think it was nice to have some open space next to the house

I would find it peaceful

came to say this! Guaranteed no development

I live opposite a graveyard - it’s a mass burial ground for a mental asylum - it’s not at all creepy, actually quite peaceful. I happily walk across it in the dark, etc. Plus I know the land will never be developed and I will keep my lovely view.

Go for it if the house is perfect - you will get used to the graveyard very quickly and seldom give it a thought.

I would never buy a house near a graveyard.

Well this might be tmi but bodies disintegrate into the soil and if there’s a graveyard full of them wouldn’t you expect that to seep into your own garden that alone would disturb me but if you aren’t interested in growing vegetables or that doesn’t bother you it’s fine

I live next door to a huge cemetery, that is now full, so although still open for visitors, no more burials, it's great, lovely and tranquil, lots of wildlife, including a family of deer that love eating the flowers, the other day one was munching on a large floral MUM. And the big bonus that it won't end up being developed.

Hmm, I share your wariness IP. It’s a grave concern.

How big is the graveyard, measuring from the dead centre? Is it shrouded by trees? Do the landowners undertake to keep everything tidy? Would any planning applications meet stiff opposition?

Much to consider.

Exactly, and so much of our food is grown in manure - literally decomposed animals and plants,

Again, the bodies are in coffins.

What is it that you imagine is "seeping"? How do you know there aren't half a dozen expired pets buried (without any containment) in your own garden?

The coffins disintegrate and the liquid from the bodies seeps out 🤢 wtf am I going to eat knowing that manure is made from dead bodies? Oh baby do you know what that’s worth oh hell is a place on earth

Well there goes the potato’s I was growing 🤢

Exactly this

I was about to say the same thing. Nothing will ever change re the land use, and that's quite a big plus when you're lucky enough to live by fairly open land. I'd actively choose being next to a graveyard over other options. Quiet and I'd never be overlooked.

I'd be more than happy to line next to a graveyard. Peaceful and historic.

It wouldn't bother me at all. Good to know it wouldn't be developed and you wouldn't get noisy neighbours there

Nicely done! 👏