Started as a cholera cemetery outside the town limits, the 48,000 burials here tell the tale of the Guest empire at Dowlais Ironworks. Inscriptions tell of managers, chemists, bankers, foremen, metallurgists, puddlers, butchers and innkeepers. These last were made wealthy by the beer contracts for the workers. Welsh and Irish and Spaniard and Italian and Englishman are segregated. Many inscriptions describe accidents and a monumental mason's yard which produced many of the tombs still exists.
(A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of South East Wales, AIA, 2003)
B.A.Malaws, RCAHMW, 07 May 2010.