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Originally Posted by katex
Would be exciting though as per original thread if something could be found. Would, skeletons apart, surely some evidence not have been found when we sunk the pits locally, understand that Huncoat is one of the oldest parts around here.
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I would have thought that some parts of Accrington and her sister townships would be quite scary to the living when you compare what’s been done to the landscape we live in and within the subterranean world that’s beneath your feet.
Hundreds of tunnels and shafts traverse the underworld; some possibly go back beyond the Romans and the earth certainly moves for some. Anyone remember the cave on Ormrod Street in the late 60s or early 70s. Things like this must have occurred hundreds of time over the centuries.
Our landscape is also scared by surface mining, clay use for Nori, local quarrying and the come, and going of the Railways. Land clearance may also have occurred due to the Activities of the church itself, and not least at the time of the Abbey that once stood within our boundaries.
All of this and more will have had an affect on the graves of our Ancestors. Its what we do to establish what’s left that is of importance now.