crik: Cricket club digs up graves so it can expand outfield

From: AAP Sports News (Australia) | Date: February 22, 2008 | Copyright information

AAP Sports News (Australia)
02-22-2008
crik: Cricket club digs up graves so it can expand outfield

LONDON, Feb 22 AAP - Part of an English graveyard has been sold off to a local cricket
club so it can expand its playing ground.

Somerset County Cricket Club's ground at Taunton, in south-west England, has won permission
to have 50 bodies removed from their graves in a neighbouring churchyard and reinterred
so its outfield can be extended.

The bodies were buried between 1858 and 1888, but no records exist of their names and
their tombstones have long since crumbled.

The Times newspaper ...

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