Mardale Burial Ground at Shap

Mardale Burial Ground, St Michael's Church, Shap in Cumbria.
Holy Trinity Church at Mardale only got its own cemetry in the 1700s. Prior to that, bodies had to be carried over the fells to Shap for burial. With the flooding of the valley in the 1930s, all the bodies that had been buried at Holy Trinity Church were exhumed and moved to new burial grounds. One hundred and four bodies were moved to this site at St Michael's Church in Shap.
It was in 1919, that the people of Mardale Green learnt that Manchester Water Corporation had just secured the long awaited Haweswater Act, a compulsory purchase agreement of the day, which granted them permission to build a dam and drown the hamlet.