Man has 200 year old grave in back garden but says it's not creepy at all

Bob Sutton says his cottage features a historical sedate chromatic successful his garden. The headstone marks the last resting spot of 29 twelvemonth aged Mary Holgate, who died successful childbirth

A mates whose cottage has a bluish plaque says it has a "fascinating" past which includes a 200-year-old sedate successful their backmost garden.

Bob Sutton and his spouse Nubia, from Roughlee, purchased their 'two up-two down' cottage 25 years ago. The spot boasts years of past and is linked backmost to a convulsive mob. The brace brought Waterfall Cottage for £47,500 backmost successful 1999 and judge that a pistillate is burried successful their backmost garden, alongside her child.

The property, which features a waterfall extracurricular the front, is made with a 370-year-old stonework. And the bluish plaque which is placed connected the operation reveals wherefore the events of August 25 successful 1748 has made the gathering truthful special. Bob shared that helium has adjacent had Methodists conscionable successful the plot to sing hymns.

The plaque, installed by Burnley and Pendle Methodist Circuit to people the Methodist Heritage Trail, reads: "Whilst preaching adjacent present successful Roughlee, John Wesley was chased by a hostile mob, taking refuge successful Barrowford. A Methodist chapel was built down these cottages successful 1823, the graveyard of which tin inactive beryllium seen."

John Wesley, the laminitis of Methodism, is said to person preached 40,000 sermons and travelled 250,000 miles including his sojourn to Roughlee. As Wesley wrote successful his diary of that time successful 1748: "I had astir fractional finished my discourse, erstwhile the mob came pouring down the elevation similar a torrent."

Later successful the day, erstwhile asked by the leaders of the mob to committedness ne'er to preach astatine Roughlee again, Wesley answered: "I would sooner chopped disconnected my ain manus than marque immoderate specified promise." The Wesleyan Methodist Chapel itself was demolished successful 1976 but the bodies of 92 radical stay buried nether the backmost gardens of the six erstwhile weavers' cottages. But for the bluish plaque, their beingness would beryllium unknown, but successful Bob's plot 2 ornate headstones - 1 surrounded by decorative robust railings - remain, reports Lanchashire Live.

One of the marked graves holds the remains of 29-year-old Mary Holgate, the woman of Henry, who died connected February 16 successful 1874. Mary died successful childbirth and though the headstone makes nary notation to her kid Bob discovered what happened to them. "I person a afloat inventory of everyone who was buried present and though the gravestone doesn't accidental it, her babe was buried with her, the kid died too," Bob said.

He added: "Sometimes radical travel on looking into their family past and I've been capable to assistance them. Once a twelvemonth Methodists from the Pendle country conscionable present successful the plot to sing hymns. They inquire support obviously, and though immoderate radical present mightiness deliberation it's strange, I'm blessed to fto them bash it."