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.
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