Place:Brompton Cemetery, Fulham, Middlesex, England

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Brompton Cemetery is located near Earls Court in the western part of London, England, in the Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. It is managed by The Royal Parks, and is one of the Magnificent Seven cemeteries. Established by Act of Parliament, it opened in 1840 and was originally known as the West of London and Westminster Cemetery.

Consecrated by the Bishop of London in June 1840, it is one of Britain's oldest and most distinguished garden cemeteries. Some 35,000 monuments, from simple headstones to substantial mausolea, mark the resting place of more than 205,000 burials. The site includes large plots for family mausolea, and common graves where coffins are piled deep into the earth, as well as a small columbarium. Brompton was closed to burials between 1952 and 1996, but is once again a working cemetery, with plots for interments and a 'Garden of Remembrance' for the deposit of cremated remains.

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 Nunhead, West Norwood, Kensal Green, Tower Hamlets Cemetery, and Abney Park.

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

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Lists of burials at Brompton Cemetery can be found at Deceased Online. They are added to those of two other London "Magnificent Seven" Cemeteries: Kensal Green (1832) and Nunhead (1840).