THE remains of an 18th Century Quaker cemetery in Bromyard could be dug up to make way for houses.
Ten homes are due to be built at the old tanyard, near Pump Street, where a Quaker meeting house was built in 1722. Neighbouring land was bought by the religious group in the 1740s to use as a burial area and it is thought to have last been used as a cemetary in the 1900s.
The meeting house was closed in 1939 and demolished in 1976.
No evidence of remains has yet been discovered but because the land was once registered for use as a cemetery, the developers, the Birmingham-based Harper Group, must give people a chance to have relatives' remains removed.
However, the bodies must have been buried in the last 50 years.
Herefordshire Council's head of planning, Jonathon Barret, said there was no chance of the homes not being built.
"In the worse case scenario where someone can lay claim to the site the area would be marked and fenced off," he said.
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