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Highgate Cemetery is a place of burial in North London, England, designed by architect Stephen Geary. [1] There are approximately 170,000 people buried in around 53,000 graves across the West and East sides. [2] Highgate Cemetery is notable both for some of the people buried there as well as for its de facto status as a nature reserve.
London Cemeteries: an illustrated guide and gazetteer (2008), Fourth Edition, The History Press, 416p, ISBN 978-0-7509-4622-3. London County Council, London Statistics Volume 24 1913-14, London County Council (1915), pp. 208–211
Nunhead Notables: some of the interesting and important men and women buried in London's Nunhead Cemetery. London: Friends of Nunhead Cemetery. ISBN 0950888117. Woollacott, Ron (2002). Ron Woollacott's Nunhead Notables: a biographical list of notable men and women buried in London's Nunhead Cemetery of All Saints. London: Friends of Nunhead ...
In 1832, Parliament passed an act encouraging the establishment of private cemeteries outside central London. Over the next decade seven cemeteries were established, at least four of which were consecrated by Charles James Blomfield, Bishop of London. The Burial Act 1852 (15 & 16 Vict. c. 85) section 9 required new burial grounds in a list of ...
Honouring individuals buried in Westminster Abbey has a long tradition. Over 3,300 people are buried or commemorated in the abbey. [1] For much of the abbey's history, most of the people buried there besides monarchs were people with a connection to the church – either ordinary locals or the monks of the abbey itself, who were generally buried without surviving markers. [2]
The cemetery is the burial site of approximately 250,000 individuals in over 65,000 graves, [18] including upward of 500 members of the British nobility and 970 people listed in the Dictionary of National Biography. Many monuments, particularly the larger ones, lean precariously as they have settled over time on the underlying London clay.
Brompton Cemetery Chapel Tomb of Frederick Richards Leyland (the only Grade II* funerary monument in Brompton Cemetery) The military section, Brompton Cemetery Main avenue Outer east section, Brompton Cemetery Colonnade, Brompton Cemetery, London Central roundel, Brompton Cemetery Emmeline Pankhurst's grave Angels, Brompton Cemetery Monument of Valentine Cameron Prinsep Grave of Nellie Farren ...
The cemetery is on the north-east side of Aldersbrook Road, in Manor Park, in the London Borough of Newham, near Epping Forest.It has two entrances: the Main Gate, close to the junction of Aldersbrook Road and Forest Drive; and the South Gate, a small gate at the junction of Aldersbrook Road and Rabbits Road.