A Victorian cemetery on the steep wooded hillside below Shirecliffe, above the Upper Don near Hillsborough. Volunteers have cleared the overgrown graves, which include soldiers from Hillsborough Barracks, and it is now a heritage park and a local wildlife site. The Friends group runs open days and wildlife surveys.
Wardsend Cemetery
An overgrown Victorian cemetery on a wooded hillside above the River Don, cleared by volunteers
Most visitors miss this
He found an apparently forgotten relic of the city’s past, with the graves of soldiers from Hillsborough Barracks, men who fought in the Crimean War and Gallipoli, factory workers and football fans among at least 2,000 engraved memorials hidden away behind thorns and bracken.