Gravestone pathway, Ballast Hills

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Ballast Hills Graveyard


Ouseburn

  • Description

    "Ballast Hills was once a notable landmark created with the dumped ballast of returning colliers. The site later become an important non-conformist burial-ground from C17th until its closure in 1853. Today, the area is a park [[197604]], with some paths created using the graveyard headstones. Tyne and Wear HER (1597): Ouseburn, Ballast Hills Graveyard http://www.twsitelines.info" Photo by Andrew Curtis, 2010.

  • Owner

    Andrew Curtis

  • Source

    Geograph (Geograph)

  • License

    What does this mean? Creative Commons License

  • Further information

    Link: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1778599
    Resource type: Image
    Added by: Simon Cotterill
    Last modified: 1 year, 5 months ago
    Viewed: 178 times
    Picture Taken: 2010-03-28

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