Church Hill Cemetery in Norwell, Massachusetts

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Get directions Common Avenue
Norwell, Massachusetts, USA

Coordinates: 42.12321, -70.80616
Cemetery ID: 2248416

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This is a privately-owned cemetery. It is still open to internments. There is no sign. This cemetery is located across the street from Pinehurst Cemetery.

The grounds of this cemetery were once the site of Saint Andrew's Anglican Church. The church stood from 11 October 1731 until it was taken down on 13 June 1811. A new larger church was built in the town of Hanover. Many of the stones in this cemetery are from the 1700s.

The Massachusetts Historical Commission refers to this cemetery in MACRIS as NRW804.

This cemetery is referred to in the Scituate, MA Vital Records to 1850 Published by: New England Historic Genealogical Society as G.R 15.

This cemetery is referred to in the book "Old Cemeteries in Southeastern Massachusetts" by Charles M Thatcher as "Old Cemetery at Church Hill - So. Norwell".