Portal:London/DYK/Cemeteries

Did you know...

• …that the Magnificent Seven are a group of 19th-century cemeteries on what were then the fringes of London?

The "Circle of Lebanon" in Highgate Cemetery, London

• …that Kensal Green Cemetery is the only Victorian cemetery in Britain established by an Act of Parliament with a mandate that its bodies may not be exhumed?

• …that London's first non-demoninational garden cemetery, at Abney Park, is the most important burial place in the UK of 19th-century Congregational, Baptist, Methodist and Salvation Army ministers and educationalists?

• …that there were reports of a vampire haunting Highgate Cemetery (pictured) in the 1970s?

• …that Beatrix Potter took the names for many of the characters in her children's books from headstones in Brompton Cemetery? (There is even a certain Peter Rabbett buried there.)