Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park
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Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park is a local nature reserve and historic cemetery[2] in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets within the East End of London. It is regarded as one of the seven great cemeteries of the Victorian era, the "Magnificent Seven", instigated because the normal (until that time) church burial plots had become overcrowded.
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Established | 1841 |
Location | |
Country | England |
Coordinates | 51°31′24″N 0°01′36″W |
Type | Public |
Owned by | Tower Hamlets London Borough Council |
Size | 10.93 hectares (27.0 acres)[1] |
No. of interments | 350,000 |
Website | fothcp |
Find a Grave | Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park |
The cemetery opened in 1841 and closed for burials in 1966. Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park today encompasses the original historic cemetery, bounded by historic walls, and additional pockets of land including "Scrapyard Meadow" and the Ackroyd Drive Greenlink. The overall site is today celebrated as Site of Metropolitan Importance for Nature and Conservation and an award-winning local nature reserve, including recognitions from Green Flag, London in Bloom and Tower Hamlets in Bloom.
It was originally named The City of London and Tower Hamlets Cemetery but was called Bow Cemetery by locals for its Bow, London, locality. The cemetery pre-dates the creation of the modern Borough of Tower Hamlets in 1965, and instead takes its name from the original, older and somewhat larger, Tower Hamlets (or Tower division) – from which the modern borough also takes its name. The historic parish boundary which defines the Mile End and Bromley-by-Bow areas runs north to south through the park, with Mile End to the west and Bromley-by-Bow to the east.