Both churches – St Thomas the Apostle Church and St Thomas à Becket – share the same graveyard.
There are an estimated 100,000 burials in the old graveyard which lies between the 2 Churches.
| Old Section |
The following people, and/or members of their family, were buried in the Old Section
- The Gibson family of Heptonstall
- Thomas Ackroyd [1756-1822]
- Rodger Baldwin [1804-1893]
- Thomas Bolton [1789-1865]
- John Bourn [1813-1886]
- Thomas Brigg [1???-1545]
- Caleb Broadley [15??-1621]
- Edward Broadley [15??-1614]
- Rev James Charnock [1792-1846]
- Rev John Charnock [1804-1846]
- Rev Joseph Charnock [1767-1847]
- Samuel Chatburn [1853-1883]
- Jeremiah Cherry [1832-1872]
- Thomas Cherry [1787-1840]
- Jonathan Collinge [1823-1873]
- Champion Crabtree [1845-1905]
- James Crabtree [1841-1870]
- Jonas Crook [1787-1844]
- Thomas Crossley [1811-1870]
- William Crossley [1701-1777]
- Luke Dewhirst [17??-1782]
- William Dugdale [1845-1891]
- John Eastwood [1785-1862]
- William Farrar [1???-1605]
- Clara daughter of James Fielding
- John Gill [1801-18??]
- Charles Greenwood [1806-1864]
- Alice wife of Greenwood Greenwood
- Greenwood Greenwood [1837-1893]
- Mercy Greenwood
- Grace wife of Paul Greenwood
- Grace wife of William Greenwood
- John Haigh [1806-1880]
- John Haigh [1839-1918]
- George Halstead [1799-1884]
- John Halstead [1802-1852]
- William Halstead [1832-1900]
- Bernard Hartley [1785-1857]
- David Hartley [1729-1770]
- David Hartley [1766-1847]
- David Hartley [1820-1845]
- Michael Heaton [1751-1807]
- Jonathan Horsfall [16??-1636]
- Luke Horsfall [1790-1845]
- Richard Horsfall [15??-1601]
- Richard Horsfall [16??-16??]
- William Horsfall [1816-1834]
- William Lister Horsfall [1839-1905]
- Roland Gomm Marshall [1924-1945]
- William Mitchell [1749-1824]
- William Mitchell [1795-1828]
- Richard Naylor [15??-1609]
- Susey wife of William Nutter
- Rufus Pickles [1842-1896]
- Sylvia Plath [1932-1963]
- Elijah Redman [1765-1825]
- Simeon Redman [1794-1860]
- Christopher Shackleton [15??-1625]
- Roger Shaw [1843-1881]
- John Speak [1788-1859]
- Thomas Spencer [1727-1783]
- Laurence Stansfeld [14??-1534]
- Thomas Stansfeld [1???-1558]
- Thomas Stansfeld [14??-1508]
- James Stansfield [16??-1691]
- John Stansfield [1775-1858]
- Jonathan Stansfield [1792-1859]
- Jonathan Stansfield [1820-1885]
- Jonathan Stansfield [1828-1873]
- Absalom Stott [1815-1880]
- John Stott [1782-1840]
- Abraham Sunderland [1589-1690]
- Abraham Crabtree Sunderland [1850-1904]
- Henry Sunderland [1802-1883]
- Crossley Sutcliffe [1790-1861]
- Henry Sutcliffe [1787-1817]
- John Sutcliffe [1719-1772]
- John Sutcliffe [1759-1816]
- John Sutcliffe [1805-1872]
- John Sutcliffe [1845-1916]
- Dr John Uttley Sutcliffe [1817-1848]
- Richard Sutcliffe [1751-1819]
- Richard Sutcliffe [1772-1843]
- Richard Sutcliffe [1786-1827]
- Richard Sutcliffe [1806-1861]
- Robert Sutcliffe [1798-1875]
- Thomas Sutcliffe [1846-1871]
- Rev Tobit Sutcliffe [1718-1803]
- Rev William Sutcliffe [1770-1833]
- William Sutcliffe [1806-1866]
- William Sutcliffe [1816-1880]
- William Henry Sutcliffe [1835-1895]
- Robert Arnold Thomas [1897-1918]
- John Uttley [1743-1833]
- Jonas Uttley [1817-1890]
- John Varley [1842-1911]
- Richard Wadsworth [1728-1788]
- Sarah wife of Richard Wadsworth
- Zachariah Wadsworth [1787-1876]
- George Wheelhouse [1798-1884]
- George Wheelhouse [1843-1873]
- John Wheelhouse [1795-1846]
- Samuel Wheelhouse [1766-1839]
- William Wheelhouse [1796-1856]
and others were buried inside the Church.
In 1911, Gamaliel Sutcliffe gave land for a new graveyard and the old graveyard was closed to new burials in 1915.
| New Section |
The following people, and/or members of their family, were buried in the New Section, also known as The Cemetery
Some of the monumental inscriptions in the graveyard are shown in the book entitled Burials at the Chapels of Heptonstall & Cross Stone and at Memorial Inscriptions from the gravestones at Heptonstall churchyard on the Hebden Bridge Local History Section websitehist
See Chantry House, Heptonstall
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