{"id":845,"date":"2025-05-01T08:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T07:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ballast-hills\/?p=845"},"modified":"2026-07-27T09:20:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T08:20:30","slug":"welcome-to-the-ballast-hills-burial-ground-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ballast-hills\/2025\/05\/01\/welcome-to-the-ballast-hills-burial-ground-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Ballast Hills Burial Ground Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ballast Hills Burial Ground is one of Newcastle\u2019s oldest surviving unconsecrated burial grounds. More than 40,000 people were buried here between the early seventeenth century and 1853.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project brings together research, care and engagement focused on the site, the archive and the stories connected with Ballast Hills. This blog shares research, personal stories, events, volunteering opportunities, and project updates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We welcome contact from descendants, family historians, researchers, volunteers, and anyone with information connected with Ballast Hills. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Follow or contact us:<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:ballast.hills@newcastle.ac.uk\">Email<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/859706655732944\/\">Facebook<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/859706655732944\/\">Instagram<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/115991614\/\">LinkedIn<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ballast Hills Burial Ground is one of Newcastle\u2019s oldest surviving unconsecrated burial grounds. More than 40,000 people were buried here between the early seventeenth century and 1853. The project brings together research, care and engagement focused on the site, the archive and the stories connected with Ballast Hills. This blog shares research, personal stories, events, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ballast-hills\/2025\/05\/01\/welcome-to-the-ballast-hills-burial-ground-project\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Welcome to the Ballast Hills Burial Ground Project&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ballast-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ballast-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ballast-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ballast-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ballast-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ballast-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":866,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ballast-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions\/866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ballast-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ballast-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ballast-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}