Boxing Day walk

Brompton Cemetery is one of Britain's oldest and most distinguished garden cemeteries. This beautiful landscape is the only Cemetery in the country owned by the Crown and managed by The Royal Parks on behalf of the nation.
Brompton Cemetery is still a working Cemetery. As one of the Magnificent Seven cemeteries, it was opened in 1840 by the West London and Westminster Cemetery Company to respond to the demands of a rapidly growing city. Designed by Benjamin Baud in the neo classical style, Brompton Cemetery was intended to be a garden for public recreation as well as providing burial space.
205,000 people from all walks of life are buried in Brompton Cemetery, from the suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst to military personnel and Chelsea Pensioners, artists, actors and founders of Chelsea Football Club. There are some 35,000 monuments of which 28 are Listed.

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