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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.
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]
London Borough Postal area Area acres [1] Graves (interments) Closed Remarks "Friends" Abney Park Cemetery: 1840: London Borough of Hackney: N16: 32.5 (200,000) Yes: It became the main burial place of English nonconformists when Bunhill Fields closed: Yes: Brompton Cemetery: 1840: Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea: SW10: 38 35,000 ...
Bunhill Fields is a former burial ground in central London, in the London Borough of Islington, just north of the City of London.What remains is about 1.6 hectares (4.0 acres) in extent [1] and the bulk of the site is a public garden maintained by the City of London Corporation.
London Cemeteries: an illustrated guide and gazetteer (4th ed.). Stroud: History Press. ISBN 978-0750946223. Woollacott, Ron (1984). 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).
This category includes people buried in Old St Paul's Cathedral, the predecessor to the present building. Pages in category "Burials at St Paul's Cathedral" The following 90 pages are in this category, out of 90 total.
They were established in the 19th century to alleviate overcrowding in existing parish burial grounds as London’s population grew during the Victorian era. [1] In 1981, the architectural historian Hugh Meller dubbed the group of cemeteries "The Magnificent Seven" after the 1960 western film of the same name.
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 ...