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Yet, until about 1800, the village was known as Beddcelert, the grave of St Celert.

They now share a tomb and epitaph: 'Inmate in grave, he took his grandchild heir, Whose soul did haste to make to him repair, And so to heaven along as little page With him did post, to wait upon

Get A Head (a ladies' hairdresser) has taken over from Margaret Graves (left), and the chemist (centre left) is still there.

landmark: the Methodists' Victoria Hall in Norfolk Street in 1908, Sheffield Newspapers' Kemsley House in High Street in 1916, the City Hall between 1928 and 1932; the Central Library and Graves

landmark: the Methodists' Victoria Hall in Norfolk Street in 1908, Sheffield Newspapers' Kemsley House in High Street in 1916, the City Hall between 1928 and 1932; the Central Library and Graves

Yet, until about 1800, the village was known as Beddcelert, the grave of St Celert.

With the first Duke already in his grave, revenge fell upon Murdoch and other members of the Stewart family.

The churchyard (right of centre) was extended in 1817 and had filled with Victorian graves, towards the monkey puzzle tree.

The monks of the abbey reputedly found his grave in Glastonbury.

In front is the 1911 grave of Villebois, a horse wounded in the Boer War and brought back to England by Lord Chesham.

It was Queen Victoria who originally argued the need for such a hospital; its objective was to care for the gravely-afflicted casualties of war.

The grave of Roman soldiers killed in a skirmish with the Brigantes is said to be marked with a large stone to the left of the gates to the Hall.

At the time of this photograph, Miss Rogers lived in the old rectory and grazed her goats in the churchyard.

In the churchyard there is an unmarked grave of ten supporters of the Chartist movement - a stone plaque near the main entrance commemorates them.

Note the grave slabs and box tombs, and the rear of Brookfields shop behind the church.

Nearby are the graves of the Welsh-speaking servants whom Lady Llanover had employed.

The Asshetons looked after their village.Almost all the villagers had jobs on the estate.The Roman road from Ribchester to Ikley passes through Downham Park at the end of the village.The grave of

The local church here contains the graves of two Englishmen - both remembered for entirely different reasons.

Their graves and monument in the churchyard remind us of the perils of 19th-century working conditions.

landmark: the Methodists' Victoria Hall in Norfolk Street in 1908, Sheffield Newspapers' Kemsley House in High Street in 1916, the City Hall between 1928 and 1932; the Central Library and Graves

Get A Head (a ladies' hairdresser) has taken over from Margaret Graves (left), and the chemist (centre left) is still there.

Nowhere was this effect felt more strongly that at the paper mills, where a severe downturn in the industry caused grave problems.

Gelert's grave – 'bedd' - gives the village its name.

Laindon took its name from the River Lyge, a lost tributary of the River Crouch, which rose from the hill on which St Nicholas's Church stands and is responsible for the extreme dampness of the graves