Bethel Chapel, Shelf

The Bethel Chapel (1853) is an independent Methodist chapel in Halifax Road, Shelf, Yorkshire.

Bethel Chapel
Former Bethel Chapel Sunday School

Records compiled in 2007 show that 4,938 people have been buried in the graveyard there since it opened in 1852, including three Elizabeth Taylors and one Isaac Newton.[1]

Notable burials include Joseph Jagger, the man who in 1881 "broke the bank at Monte Carlo"[1][2] and Edward Hartley, an early socialist politician who retired to Shelf.

The cemetery includes at least three war graves from the First World War, including Second Lieutenant A. E. Lord of the Yorkshire Regiment who won the Military Medal and died in 1918.

References
  1. Here lies the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo. Halifax Courier, 5 April 2007. Retrieved 21 October 2018.
  2. Low, Valentine (14 August 2018). "How mill worker broke the bank at Monte Carlo". The Times. Retrieved 21 October 2018.

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