Kensal Green Cemetary
Kensal Green Cemetery was immortalised in the lines of G. K. Chesterton For there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen; Before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green. Incorporated in 1832 by The General Cemetery Company, it is the oldest of the 'Magnificent Seven' cemeteries still in operation. It is the only such cemetery established by an Act of Parliament with a mandate that its bodies may not be exhumed and cremated or the land sold for development.Whilst borrowing from the ideals established at Pre Lachaise in Paris some years before, the Kensal Green Cemetery project was used as a design and management basis for many cemetery projects throughout the British Empire of the time. The cemetery is the burial site of approximately 250,000 individuals in 65,000 graves, including upwards of 500 members of the British nobility and 550 people listed in the Dictionary of National Biography. Notable burials include: Thomas Allom, Charles Babbage, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Wilkie Collins, Hugh Falconer, Marcus Garvey, Freddie Mercury, Harold Pinter, Sir William Siemens, William Makepeace Thackeray and Anthony Trollope.
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