An interesting article in the Sheffield, England Telegraph reports on controversial plans by a farmer to build a family mausoleum in a wooded area that is the site of an abandoned Jewish cemetery. The cemetery apparently is listed as an “at risk ancient monument” by Britain’s Jewish Heritage organization.
The mausoleum would be created at a disused cemetery in woodland next to Crawshaw Lodge, where there are four disused mausoleums, two of which are ruinous.
National park planners said the cemetery became disused after the mausoleums were desecrated in the early 1980s and remains were removed to a cemetery in Sheffield.
The authority said that because of the length of dereliction, the site is now considered to be woodland and needs permission for change of use for further burials.