Place:Nunhead Cemetery, Peckham, London, England

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NameNunhead Cemetery
TypeCemetery
Coordinates51.4636°N 0.0528°W
Located inPeckham, London, England     (1840 - )
Also located inGreater London, England     (1965 - )
See alsoCamberwell, London, Englandmetropolitan borough in which it was located 1900-1965
Southwark (London Borough), Greater London, EnglandLondon borough covering the area since 1965
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Nunhead Cemetery is one of the Magnificent Seven cemeteries in London, England. It is perhaps the least famous and celebrated of them. The cemetery is located in the Nunhead area of southern London and was originally known as All Saints' Cemetery. Nunhead Cemetery was consecrated in 1840 and opened by the London Necropolis Company.

An Act of Parliament was passed in the 1830s which allowed joint-stock companies to purchase land and set up large cemeteries outside the boundaries of the City of London. The "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries were all laid out about the same time (1832–41). Highgate Cemetery, where many dignitaries are buried, is the most well known: the others are Tower Hamlets Cemetery, West Norwood, Kensal Green, Brompton, and Abney Park.

For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Nunhead Cemetery.

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There are nearly 300,000 burials in around 46,000 graves in the 52-acre Nunhead Cemetery now at Deceased Online. They are added to those of two other London "Magnificent Seven" Cemeteries: Kensal Green (1832) and Brompton (1840).


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