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3 unusual facts about Abney Park Cemetery


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WORLD SERVICE - by Ant Hampton and Silvia Mercuriali in collaboration with over 60 artists - June 2001, Abney Park Cemetery, commission from Stoke Newington Festival, London - 2 nights.

Sorbus latifolia

Since it is very fertile and grows true from seed, it has occasionally been able to naturalise in woodlands beyond its origins in the protected Fontainebleau woods, as at Abney Park Cemetery (an early Victorian garden cemetery in Stoke Newington, London).

Meanwhile, the horticulturalist, George Loddiges, whom Loudon held in high regard, labelled his arboretum trees at Abney Park Cemetery in 1840, as Sorbus latifolia, the currently-accepted binomial.


Abney Park Chapel

Loudon had been critical of the catacombs at Kensal Green as 'bad taste', and had also found the 'pleasure-ground style' at Norwood cemetery objectionable; yet offered only praise for the new principles of cemetery layout, management and design at Abney Park.

Samuel Bagster the Elder

He died at his residence in Old Windsor on 28 March 1851, aged 78 and is commemorated with a large ledger slab memorial at Abney Park Cemetery.


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