The Monument Gardens commemorate the Cholera epidemic of 1832 in which 402 people died in Sheffield, including the Master Cutler. The burial ground contains a mass grave for 339 of the victims who were not buried in churchyards due to fear of the disease and ignorance over how it spread. The Duke of Norfolk donated land for the burial ground, which closed in 1833. In 1899 the city Parks committee leased the ground from the Duke of Norfolk, who in 1930 gifted it to the city. The gardens contain the Cholera Monument, designed by M.E. Hadfield and erected in 1835 (Harman & Minnis 2004, 214). Significant legibility of former cholera burial ground. Prior to its use as a burial ground the area was on the edge of Clay Woods and had been part of the medieval deer park. Legibility is significant as the history of the site is readily apparent.