The Walker Mausoleum is located at 53°25′53″N 1°21′56″W / 53.4313°N 1.3655°W / 53.4313; -1.3655Coordinates: 53°25′53″N 1°21′56″W / 53.4313°N 1.3655°W / 53.4313; -1.3655 on College Road, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. The sandstone mausoleum was built in the 1760s as the burial site for the families of Samuel and Aaron Walker and is now a Grade II listed building.
The mausoleum is located in the cemetery of Masbrough Chapel, which was founded by the Walker family, when they split from the Rotherham Methodist meeting in 1762. The cemetery also holds the graves of other local industrial families including the Oxleys, Beatsons, Clarks, and Habershons.
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Famous quotes containing the word walker:
“croppers rotting shacks
with famine, terror, flood, and plague near by;
where sentiment and hatred still held sway
and only bitter land was washed away.”
—Margaret Abigail Walker (b. 1915)