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Abney Park Cemetery Company

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Set up to run the Abney Park cemetery in Stoke Newington (see Abney House and Park), this company also ran the Chingford Mount cemetery. It went into administration in the 1970s. 

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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