Lychgate entrance to Burnham-on-Sea Cemetery
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Lychgate entrance to Burnham-on-Sea Cemetery
Image: © Jaggery Taken: 12 May 2016
From Westfield Road into the northwest side of the municipal cemetery. Derived from an old English word for a corpse, a lych gate is the roofed gateway to a burial ground, formerly used to shelter a coffin until the clergyman’s arrival for the burial. Burnham Joint Burials Committee manages this cemetery and also Highbridge Cemetery and Brent Road Cemetery.
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Image Location
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51.241169
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-2.99427