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St. John's Church, Heanor replied on: 4/18/2005 5:15:48 PM Does anyone know the reason the headstones were removed from Aldercar cemetery and laid around the church yard.Possible date is 1970's.I think I was living away at the time, but remember my father telling me they either wanted to widen or build a new road over it.There must have been some outcry about it, as many people had family buried there.(as I do)Today the cemetery looks like a field with the odd gravestone still there-they seem to have left the few graves which had a surround as well as a headstone. The headstones are placed around the walls of the churchyard, but some have fallen face down, some are overgrown-so many can't be read.So sad.

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