Famous cemeteries
Nunhead Cemetery is perhaps the least known, but most attractive, of the great Victorian Cemeteries of London. Consecrated in 1840, it is one of the seven great Victorian cemeteries established in a ring around the outskirts of London. It...
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Famous cemeteries
West Norwood Cemetery is a 40-acre cemetery in West Norwood in the London Borough of Lambeth in London, England. By 2000 there had been 164,000 burials in 42,000 plots, plus 34,000 cremations. The cemetery features 66 Grade II and...
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Famous cemeteries
Kensal Green Cemetery, located in Kensal Green, London, England, was incorporated in 1832, and is the oldest of the ‘Magnificent Seven’ cemeteries still in operation. It is the only Victorian cemetery established by an act of the British Parliament...
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Bunhill Fields is a cemetery located in the London Borough of Islington, north of the City of London, and managed by the Corporation of London. It was used as a burial site for Noncomformists from the late seventeenth century...
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Famous cemeteries
Abney Park in Stoke Newington, north-east London, UK is a historic parkland originally laid out in the early 18th century by Lady Mary Abney and Dr. Isaac Watts, and the neighbouring Hartopp family. In 1840 it became a magnificent...
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