Abney Park Cemetery

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 Victorian garden cemetery and arboretum, which was widely celebrated as an example of its time. After the early 1880s, the arboretum fell into decline as the original founding enterprise gave way to a new, more commercial general cemetery company with business interets outside of Stoke Newington. Though never formalised as a cemetery through Act of Parliament... read more