[clarification needed] The graveyard is also noteworthy for being the final resting place of George Lambert VC, a highly decorated Irish soldier,[3] for holding graves of many victims of the Great Sheffield Flood of 1864, and being the only cemetery in Britain with an active railway line passing through it.

Thompson and George Rudé) called Crisis of Confidence: The Public Response to the 1862 Sheffield Resurrection Scandal by Jordan Lee Smith.

[2] On the evening of 3 June 1862 the cemetery was the location of a turbulent riot by angry Sheffield citizens, against accusations that the Reverend John Livesey and his sexton Isaac Howard were neglecting to bury corpses, and instead selling them to the town's medical school[5] for use in anatomical dissection.

The rumours were proven false and Livesey and Howard were instead fined by York Assizes for reusing graves in order to save space.

[6] The cemetery was originally linked at its Hillsborough entrance by Wardsend Bridge, a two-arched stone structure built in the 18th century exclusively to provide access to the burial ground.