From 1782 it had served as a burial ground for the Parish of St Mary the Virgin, Twickenham, but was nearly full by 1835, when a new Burial Ground in Oak Lane was opened. The older burial ground was officially closed in 1868, although it is known that some burials, in family graves, continued until after 1875. There is, in Twickenham Library, a record of the inscriptions on the 196 tombstones and monuments which could still be read in 1930. About 450 names are listed, although there were probably many more unmarked graves. Many burials were those of children who died in infancy.
This garden was first laid out for public use in 1953 and is now known as Holly Road Garden of Rest.
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Burial ground for St Mary the Virgin, Twickenham
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Garden of rest
Holly Road Garden of rest This garden was first laid out for public use in 19...
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Aldersgate Trustees of the Methodist Church
Also known as "Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes". The purposes of the Trustees are commemoration of the Aldersgate Conversion of John and Charles Wesley in May 1738.
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90 martyr Friends buried in Quaker Bunhill Fields Burial Ground
Died in London prisons and were buried in Quaker Bunhill Fields Burial Ground.
1 memorial
Holy Trinity church Stroud Green
Designed by architect E. B. Ferrey in 1881. We think this is Edmund Benjamin Ferrey (1845–1900), son of Benjamin Ferrey who designed St Stephen's extension in Rochester Street, SW1. The church hall...
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Rev. W. H. Hornby Steer
Born Birkenhead. Vicar of St Philips Lambeth 1898 - 1910. Biblical Studies: The Rev. W. H. Hornby Steer, MA, St John's College, Cambridge, Senior Curate of St Jude's Church, South Kensington, has ...
1 memorial
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Sir Christopher Lee
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George, Duke of Kent
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Millstones
EC1, Great Sutton Street
We can't identify any river that ran through here (the Fleet would be the nearest) so perhaps these come from a windmill. But it's not pa...
1 subject commemorated
Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay
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4 memorials
Edward Bostock
Bostock.net has an obituary and some photographs, and supplied the information here. Born Hampstead, son of Geoffrey. Worked as a chartered accountant, a partner in the family firm of Annan Dexte...
2 memorials
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