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Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park

A working nature reserve that happens to hold a quarter of a million burials.

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Photo by Gordon Joly, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Closed for burials in 1966 and left alone, which turned thirty-one acres of East End cemetery into one of the better woodlands in inner London: sycamore and ash closed over the graves, bluebells and wood anemone in spring, sparrowhawks and seven species of bat. The Friends manage it as a reserve and run walks and a monthly work day. Nothing here is tidied: fallen headstones are left where they lie and dead wood is left standing, because that is the habitat.

Where
Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, Southern Grove, E3 4PX
Nearest station
Bow Road · 3 min walk

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MondayOpen 24 hours
TuesdayOpen 24 hours
WednesdayOpen 24 hours
ThursdayOpen 24 hours
FridayOpen 24 hours
SaturdayOpen 24 hours
SundayOpen 24 hours

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