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While perusing the Old-Maps UK website I happened to spot a burial ground that was at least named in the 1891 and 1893 maps but, if there then, was not named in the 1850 and 1854 maps. The 'photo' is taken from the 1:2500 1893 map and shows the burial ground between Water Lane and Great Wilson Street.I wonder if anyone knows if the graves were reintered at some stage or simply built over. If the latter is the case then the site would seem to be about where the ASDA HQ is.

I don't know if this is connected but there was a memorial stone at Christ Church at the junction with Meadow Lane and Great Wilson St, this was for the cholera victims of the outbreak in the mid 1800s. I cant remember the exact wording but they were buried locally, maybe the victims were interred in this cemetery.

There is a "Friends Meeting House" next to the burial ground,"Friends" being Quakers,so it is quite probably the burial ground for the Quakers.

It was a 17th century Quaker burial ground attached to the Friends' Meeting House, known as Camp Hill Court.According to this history of Leeds Quakers, the gravestones were moved to Adel and laid face down (not sure why this would be - possibly because the bodies were not moved with them?).http://www.leedsquakers.co.uk/meetings/_adel-history    

ASDA House is slap bang over it now. Interestingly some of the Nicholsons of Roundhay park were buried there.

Thanks all for the information. I wonder how many of the people at ASDA HQ know what might be beneath them!

OMG. I knew about the quaker meeting house but the possibility of a burial ground never crossed my mind. My desk is directly on the first floor above where the bodies might be.I will let you know if we get any strange voices through the white noise on our TV sets. Often the furniture in the restaurant rearranges itself, however this is less to do with poltergeist activity and more to do with sloppy cleaning staff.As far as I know there is no basement.

sirjohn wrote: OMG. I knew about the quaker meeting house but the possibility of a burial ground never crossed my mind. My desk is directly on the first floor above where the bodies might be.I will let you know if we get any strange voices through the white noise on our TV sets. Often the furniture in the restaurant rearranges itself, however this is less to do with poltergeist activity and more to do with sloppy cleaning staff.As far as I know there is no basement. as far as you know.........

Then there was the Tetley's bore holes down into the local water table which gave said Ale it's sturdy, moderate 'body'..    

Next time I see Quakers on the shelf in Asda I'll look on them in a different light.