Nottingham - NG3 (Sneinton)
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Nottingham - NG3 (Sneinton)
Image: © David Hallam-Jones Taken: 7 May 2012
These gates and associated boundary wall separate Victoria Park from St Mary's Rest Garden (an extension of the main park). It was the urgent need for more cholera-related burial plots that lead to the development of this site. The Quaker grocer Samuel Fox donated part of the plot but soon afterwards St Mary's Church had to purchase the rest of it (another 6 acres) from him at a cost of £867, something that caused consternation since the Archdeacon at that time had offered a different site for this purpose free of charge. Originally consecrated as St Ann's Cemetery in 1835, it became known as St Mary's Cemetery later.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.956511
Longitude
-1.140018