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Atlas ObscuraNov 12, 2025

Undercliffe Cemetery in Bradford, England

During the Industrial Revolution in the first half of the nineteenth century, the city of Bradford in West Yorkshire underwent a dramatic transformation from a rural market town with a population of about 13,000 people to an industrial powerhouse with a population of over 100000 people. Consequently, the city struggled for decades with burying their dead, especially after a cholera epidemic in…

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