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Living next door to a graveyard

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woebetide8 · 17/10/2024 08:13

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?

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bizzywizzy · 19/10/2024 22:47

Yes I do. Huge proper old victorian one full of monuments and marble statues that glow in the moonlight. Parts of it very overgrown with brambles. Amazing at night after snowfall. Just been in there to get the cat to come in for the night. But I only go along one path parallel to the road, definitely wouldn't go further in at 10pm on a drizzly misty night!
The view from the front bedroom is of all our 'silent neighbours' 😁
Can get a bit rowdy aftet the pubs shut on Halloween, drunks jumping out at each other from behind gravestones and a lot of shrieking.

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woebetide8 · 20/10/2024 09:29

CrispyCrumpets · 19/10/2024 22:06

Hang on, what? This is nuts!! Surely can't be true?

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It is true: I've done more research often when developers "buy the land" from the council, it includes the cemetery so the freeholders or leaseholders of properties that are built there are responsible for the upkeep, and yes there were literally bodies under the patio!

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woebetide8 · 20/10/2024 09:31

Rummly · 19/10/2024 22:31

There can’t be bodies under the patio or anywhere else under the property. One, because burials would have been moved before the land was repurposed (assuming that’s even what happened, which is not very likely). And two, because in the improbable case of bodies being discovered during building works, they’d be taken away for reburial.

Sounds to me like the owner believes local folklore about the house being built on top of the dead.

Don’t know about the maintenance and freehold, but TBH seems like chinny reck-on.

It is true about the upkeep of the cemetery, the EA sent me the information yesterday afternoon. As for "some of the burial site being under a corner of the back garden", who knows... Either way, I am not buying it!

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Zanatdy · 20/10/2024 09:44

It would put me off, not because i’m scared of the dead, but seeing funeral processions / mourners would bring back memories i’d rather not be constantly reminded me of. I’d find it quite depressing

OldTinHat · 20/10/2024 10:53

@ThatCalmHelper that's fascinating!

KnightleyAndCocktails · 20/10/2024 12:04

@Rummly There can’t be bodies under the patio or anywhere else under the property.

not necessarily, look at this

NOTE please be aware there are two authorised graves situated in the garden of the property.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/150025598#/?channel=RES_BUY

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Rummly · 20/10/2024 12:49

KnightleyAndCocktails · 20/10/2024 12:04

@Rummly There can’t be bodies under the patio or anywhere else under the property.

not necessarily, look at this

NOTE please be aware there are two authorised graves situated in the garden of the property.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/150025598#/?channel=RES_BUY

That’s probably individual authorised burials on private property, not the remains of a cemetery.

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