Weaste Cemetery

Weaste Cemetery, previously known as Salford Borough Cemetery, is a public Grade II listed Victorian cemetery in Weaste, Salford. Opened in 1857, it is the oldest of Salford's four cemeteries, covering 39 acres and containing over 332,000 graves.

Photo: Eirian Evans, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Type: Cemetery
Description: cemetery in Salford, Greater Manchester, England, UK
Also known as: “Salford Borough Cemetery”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Old Trafford and Imperial War Museum North.

Old Trafford

Stadium

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Old Trafford is a football stadium in the Old Trafford area of Greater Manchester, England. It is the home ground of Manchester United. With a capacity of 74,158, it is the largest club football stadium in the United Kingdom, and the eleventh-largest in Europe. Old Trafford is situated 1 mile southeast of Weaste Cemetery.

Imperial War Museum North

Museum

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Imperial War Museum North is a museum in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford in Greater Manchester, England. One of five branches of the Imperial War Museum, it explores the impact of modern conflicts on people and society. Imperial War Museum North is situated 3,000 feet south of Weaste Cemetery.

The Lowry

Art gallery

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Lowry is a theatre and gallery complex at Salford Quays, Salford, Greater Manchester, England. It is named after the early 20th-century painter L. S. Lowry, known for his paintings of industrial scenes in North West England. The Lowry is situated 2,900 feet southeast of Weaste Cemetery.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Weaste and MediaCityUK.

Weaste

Suburb

Photo: N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Weaste is an inner-city suburb of Salford, Greater Manchester, England. It is bordered by the town of Eccles to the West and Seedley to the East. In 2014 Weaste and Seedley ward had a population of 12,616.

MediaCityUK

Neighborhood

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MediaCityUK is a 200-acre mixed-use property development on the banks of the Manchester Ship Canal in the boroughs of Salford and Trafford, Greater Manchester, England.

Salford Quays

Suburb

Photo: Frombowen, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Salford Quays is an area of Salford, Greater Manchester, England, near the end of the Manchester Ship Canal. Previously the site of Manchester Docks, it faces Trafford across the canal.

Weaste Cemetery

Category: burial
Location: Salford, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.47759° or 53° 28′ 39″ north

Longitude

-2.30297° or 2° 18′ 11″ west

Open location code

9C5VFMHW+2R

OpenStreetMap ID

way 166727618

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=cemetery

Wikidata ID

Q16903021

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