Cholera Memorial, Adwick Le Street, South Yorkshire
The Cholera memorial at the Church of St Lawrence was constructed in 1832. Approximately 30,000 people died of the Cholera disease in the United Kingdom after it arrived in the country in 1831. The memorial has the following inscription 'THIS STONE / WAS ERECTED / BY THE PEOPLE / OF / ADWICK-LE-STREET / AS A MEMORIAL / OF THAT / SEVERE PESTILLANCE / THE CHOLERA / WHICH IN THE MONTH OF JULY 1832 WITH / FEARFUL SUDDENESS / DESTROYED FIVE / OF THE INHABITANTS / OF HAMPOLE'. The same outbreak killed 402 people in Sheffield.
