cemetery

A new novella about St Pancras, Thomas Hardy and 10,000 skeletons.

Local residents fight to keep out the corpses.

Everyone’s favourite bit of ‘secret London’ gets protected status.

Nunhead spook caught by Tyla’75. Nunhead Cemetery Open Day is this Saturday which got us thinking about a tall, undead banker with a sad story. William Daniel Jenkins was a six foot, seven and a half inch tall clerk who worked at the Bank of …

What is it? One of London’s “Magnificent 7” Victorian cemeteries, 40 acres worth of green space sandwiched between Brompton Road, Fulham Road and Stamford Bridge football ground, it opened in 1840. Where is it? On the edge of zone 1, West Brompton Underground is right …

Nature-ist spends summer in the ‘magnificent seven‘ cemeteries What is it? Highgate’s West Cemetery is not where Karl Marx is. He’s in the East extension. We went to the original West Cemetery which is consecrated ground – for the professed believers – and opened in …

Nature-ist spends summer in the ‘magnificent seven‘ cemeteries What is it? 40 acres of landscaped cemetery built on the site of the ancient Great North Wood from which Norwood takes its name. English Heritage describes it as the first all-Gothic cemetery, although many of its …

This Sunday, the City of London Cemetery will hold its first Open Day since 2006. The cemetery, out near Wanstead Flats, will put on displays of a more sepulchral nature than your typical garden fete. We’re promised demonstrations of stone masonry and urn design, a …

Seems that fans travelling to watch the action at Wimbledon are being allowed to park their cars on the graves of British tennis players’ careers deceased folk at a nearby cemetery. St Mary’s Church in Wimbledon Village regularly charges punters £20 a day during the …

Nature-ist spends summer in the ‘magnificent seven‘ cemeteries What is it? The first aboretum to be combined with a cemetery in Europe, Abney Park was laid out in the 18th century as a non-denominational burial ground and became the place for dissenters and non-conformists to …