The second detached burial ground for the parish of Holy Trinity, Hull (second to Castle St. site s.p.b.) was sited just north of Hessle Rd. and west of St. George’s Rd. at its southern end. This was then known as Division Rd. Cemetery as it was immediately west of that road. It had a long life having been opened in 1862 and eventually closed in 1952. It was cleared od headstones, paths and any surviving buildings related to the Cemetery in 1972, landscaped (minimal apart from grass seeded) and renamed Newington Park, which it remains. To the best of my knowledge there was no removal of human remains.
Division Rd. was so named because it ran parallel to the boundary line between the parishes of Hessle and Hull/Myton, this until the late 19th century (see A History of Hessle Common (now south-west Hull) (Publications), p. 8-9).
After the development of civil cemeteries, each with sections of consecrated ground for the interment of worshippers in the Established Church, churchyards became less and less a place of burial. Hull’s first municipal cemetery was Western (old), Spring Bank West (1861-1991) while the most recent is Priory Woods (2010-), this following an agreement between Hull City Council and the East Riding of Yorkshire authority.
As an example, and from my current on-going research from the minute books of the Hull Town Council, it was revealed that on 1st September 1880 the Archbishop of York (‘his grace’) came to Hull and led the service of consecration for the part(s) of Hedon Rd. civil cemetery reserved for worshippers in the Established Church (Minutes of Hull Town Council, Bk. 4, Miscellaneous Committees, Burial 1876-1884 – housed in the Search Room at Hull History Centre). The grandest carriages in the town were commandeered for the event. Hedon Rd. Cemetery had been opened in the late 1870s.