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Ascension Parish Burial Ground
Also known as: Cambridge, Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge, Ss Giles & Peter Burial Ground, Cambridge, Ss Giles & Peter Church Cemetery | | All Souls Lane, Huntingdon Road
Cambridge
Cambridgeshire England
Postal Code: CB3 0EA
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Cemetery notes and/or description:
The church of St Giles and St Peter stands at the junction of Castle Street/Castle Hill with Chesterton Road, but the Ascension Parish Burial Ground,[a church cemetery created when the churchyard became closed to further interments], is off the Huntingdon Road near the junction with Storey's Way in the northwest of Cambridge.
It includes the graves of many Cambridge academics and non-conformists of the 19th and early 20th century. A small chapel was also built on the grounds.The one and a half acres of the burial ground were established in 1857, the first burial being in 1869. Today some 2,500 people of every religious denomination and none, are buried in 1,500 plots. It is the final resting place of many city and university dignitaries, scientists, scholars,[including three Nobel prize winners] and 22 Knights of the Realm. It is a designated City Wildlife Site and is part of the Storey's Way Conservation area. There are 6 Commonwealth burials of the 1914-1918 war and 1 of the 1939-1945 war here. [text by Geoffrey Gillon]
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GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 52.21741, Longitude: 0.09993
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