Complex sentence: Commercially unsuccessful, only 148 burials took place between that year and 1888 when it was sold back to the Abbey Church, the municipal General Cemetery at Longden Road (opened 1856) having taken up public usage.
Split into simpler sentences: Commercially unsuccessful, 148 burials took place between that year and 1888 when it was sold back to the Abbey Church. The municipal General Cemetery at Longden Road (opened 1856) resumed public usage.