As you head south out of the city of Manchester, the cities huge Southern Cemetery houses some of its biggest names. Opened in 1879 in Chorlton-Cum-Hardy, the municipal cemetery is the largest in the United Kingdom and was originally a 100-acre plot of land, bought for the princely sum of £38,340 by the Manchester Corporation in 1872. It was expanded by another 90 acres in 1926, although some of this land has subsequently been developed for housing and some has allotments. Originally designed by the cities surveyor James Gascoigne, and the…
