Hunslet Cemetery Plan

[greggus]

Does anyone know where I can access a burial plan of Hunslet Cemetery?  Yorkshireburialsuk has excellent plans of each individual burial section, but not how they link together so I don't know which section is which. I spent 2 hours walking round the cemetery recently looking for gravestone which I know is there but without success as I couldn't locate the section it is in.  Grave numbers do not help as it is impossible to see them.

[temps]

Strangely enough was just going to post the same thing

[PaulineJ]

There is a facebook group which might be help.

Hunslet Cemetery Practical Volunteers

Pa

[temps]

There is a facebook group which might be help.

Hunslet Cemetery Practical Volunteers

Pa

thank you

[greggus]

Thanks a lot for the swift replies.

[pjs12]

Does this plan assist you in any way?

Ian

[greggus]

Thank you very much for posting this plan. This map has certainly identified the general area in which I need to be looking (old cemetery, general section). I reckoned to look there already, though! Another visit is clearly called for.  At least I won't be looking everywhere next time!

[Crumblie]

In the old cemetery there are many "guinea" graves which have a number of unrelated people in them so you have to do a lot of reading and not all are legible unfortunately. There are also graves where the headstones have either fallen over or have been laid down due to being deemed unsafe, not all of them are face up. In addition to that many graves have no headstones at all because the families could not afford them. I have spent many hours wandering round there, although I didn't find what I was looking for I did enjoy reading some the headstones.

[Chris Doran]

Have you looked at Hunslet Cemetery on Find a Grave recently? From the number of memorials it looks as if the whole register has been added and the additions all have plot numbers. Moreover, you can now search by plot number, so with some trial and error you may be able to find distinctive monuments near the one you're looking for which have photos or even GPS. You could also look for photos near the corners of the Yorkshireburialsuk map sections.

Go to the above link, scroll down to the Search area and click on "More search options" which gives you a Plot field (bottom right). Wildcards are available, but the default selects by prefix, so 123 will give you 123, 1230-1239, 12300-12399 etc.

Another trick I use for finding my way around cemeteries is to print out the list of military burials from the CWGC site, as the official gravestones stand out