Nunhead Cemetery

Nunhead Cemetery is one of the seven cemeteries established in a ring around the outskirts of London. It was consecrated in 1840, and contains examples of the magnificent monuments erected in memory of the most eminent citizens of the day, which contrast sharply with the small, simple headstones marking common, or public, burials. It’s formal avenue of towering limes and the Gothic gloom of the original Victorian planting gives way to paths which recall the country lanes of a bygone era. (abridged from the Friends of Nunhead Cemetery website )