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A local historian is writing to the Pope to protest over an ‘abandoned’ Roman Catholic graveyard which he says has become a ‘drugs den’. The overgrown cemetery - known as Barton Upon Irwell Roman Catholic Graveyard - in the Peel Green area of Eccles has not been used for a burial since 1940.
Craig Ellis, who lives just over the boundary in Stretford, has studied the history of the area and says he has discovered that no-one actually owns the graveyard. The 52-year-old IT consultant told the Local Democracy Reporting Service: “I’ve been investigating to find out who owns this cemetery for months.”
He said the small 30-metre by 30-metre cemetery was formerly owned by the de Trafford family, who were big landowners around Peel Green for hundreds of years. But when the family offloaded the burial ground to the Catholic church the necessary paperwork for ownership to be secured was never completed, meaning that the graveyard is now owned by no one.
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Salford city council has confirmed that the site is not their responsibility. A spokesperson said: “It’s a Roman Catholic site and it is the responsibility of the diocese so not something we can comment on.”
However, a spokesperson for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Liverpool told the Local Democracy Reporting Service: “Eccles isn’t in our archdiocese patch, so I spoke to the Salford diocese, as I thought it might be one of theirs, but they confirmed that it isn’t. We have now checked the land and it is unregistered, so it definitely doesn’t belong to us.”
Mr Ellis said he is concerned the graveyard is being used as a drug den and is a possible source of danger to local
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