Sussex County Lunatic Asylum Burial Ground
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Sussex County Lunatic Asylum Burial Ground
Image: © Peter Jeffery Taken: 1 Apr 2008
The Asylum burial ground is now overgrown and derelict, it was full when it closed in 1891,but according to the plans held by the East Sussex Records Office, only four of the graves had a headstone. This photo shows one of the headstones still in situ.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.989839
Longitude
-0.093255