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Links to Further Information about Aspects of Abney Park Cemetery

  • History and Background
  • Architecture
  • The Abney Park Chapel
  • Park that Inspired Dr Isaac Watts
  • Landscape by: Loddiges Nursery
  • Design Inspiration: Mount Auburn Cemetery, Massachusetts
  • 'Predecessor' burial ground (for some): Bunhill Fields
  • Early Trustee: Charles Reed, Hackney's first MP
  • Founder: George Collison
  • Who were the Congregationalists & Independents ?
  • United Reformed Church - in the modern-day, this combines several former faith groups including the  Independent' or 'Congregational' faith of the cemetery founders and of Isaac Watts and Lady Abney
  • The Massachusetts Bay Colony - brief history that helps understand the special links between Abney Park (e.g. the Abney Park cemetery founders, Dr Watts, Lady Abney, Susanna Corder and a good many of those buried in the cemetery) as descendents of the Putitan tradition, therefore connected with New England and Boston .
  • Various-leaved Hawthorn
  • Service Tree of Fontainebleau
  • Abney Park's Multi-cultural Education Programmes
  • Abney Park Cemetery Indexing Project
  • Some Photographs of Abney Park

     

    Links to other working or closed cemeteries

  • 'The Magnificent Seven' London cemeteries
  • National Federation of Cemetery Friends
  • Association of Significant Cemeteries
  • The General Cemetery Sheffield interesting and very modest early example of incorporation of 'Egyptian Revival' motifs into a small gateway (originally a nonconformist burial ground gateway, now forming part of the later, larger general cemetery)
  • Highgate Cemetery where our founding architect is buried
  • Kensal Green Cemetery the earliest London garden cemetery; in common with Abney Park cemetery it also upset the Gothic Revivalists
  • Nunhead Cemetery interesting similarities of woodland ecology with Abney Park, for example also a valuable breeding ground for Speckeld Wood butterflies
  • London Cemeteries

    Links to sites of related interest

  • British Association for Local History
  • BBC History 2000
  • Commonwealth War Graves Commission
  • Family Search
  • GENUKI - Genealogy UK and Ireland
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    • See also
    Hackney Archives (external site)


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