The Churchyard.

 

The churchyard has nearly nine hundred grave plots. Only one grave is regularly visited. The most significant grave is 690, that of Thomas Williams, “One of the Balaklava heroes.”

 

This rather plain grave stone is situated on the east side (facing Michael Shields’ house). Thomas Williams took part – and survived – the Charge of the Light Brigade in the Crimean War.

 

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Grave 225 is the grave of Sir Joshua Walmsley a former mayor of Liverpool. This is a double plot and also contains the remains of members of his family. The gravestone is a rather grandiose polished granite pyramid.

 

Grave 840 under the pine tree on the east side of the yard, is the grave of Pilot Officer Danford DFC who was killed in 1940.

 

There are many other interesting graves of Liverpool merchants, doctors and people who died abroad and whose remains were returned to Edge Hill for burial.

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Please take care when walking around the churchyard, the ground is uneven in parts and gravestones can be very slippy when wet.