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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Abney Park Cemetery
		The park is situated near Stoke Newington High Street, London N16, and it is leased to the Abney Park Cemetery Trust It occupies 32 acres (129,000 m²), which includes a nature reserve, a classroom, a visitor's centre and a magnificently dramatic central chapel which, sadly, is disused.
		Abney Park was the first London cemetery to be invited to join the Association of Significant Cemeteries in Europe (ASCE) and it is the only surviving example of an English landscape designed by George Loddiges FLS FZS.
		Abney Park is one of the main burial places of nineteenth century missionaries; here, for example is the burial place of William Ellis, John Williams' wife and son, and Dr Medhurst.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Abney_Park_Cemetery (4030 words)

	Abney Park Cemetery Trust: Welcome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Abney Park is a historic C18th century parkland preserved in memory of Dr Isaac Watts and Lady Mary Abney.
		Some parts of Abney Park are still, ocassionally, buried in as a courtesy to people who once held family plots from the private cemetery company before it closed in 1978; this is discretionary and requires the permission of Hackney Council.
		Although the park is a disused burial ground or Open Space, some parts are still ocassionally buried in as a courtesy to people who once held family plots from the private cemetery company that closed in 1978 when rights to burial ceased; so please respect their relatives' wishes and quietitude.
	www.abney-park.org.uk (920 words)

	Abney Park Cemetery Trust: ARCHITECTURE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Abney Park Chapel's imposing steeple, a 'sister' to the dramatic octagonal spire at Bloxham Church in Oxfordshire which is currently being restored, is fortunately still in good structural condition.
		Abney Park's distinctly more picturesque approach is a reflection of the importance its founders attached to ideas that differed from the mainstay of Victorian expectation and convention.
		Even Abney Park Cemetery may not have escaped her glare, for though noted for its relatively 'quiet demeanour' and the supremacy of its landscape, it still boasted dozens of monuments of granite and marble, countless angels, columns and draped urns; the like of which, sadly, are no longer allowed in modern municipal cemetery regimes.
	www.abney-park.org.uk /monuments (2440 words)

	Abney Park Cemetery Trust: HISTORY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Abney Park extends over some 32 acres (13ha) on a gentle north-facing sandy slope running down from an ancient ridgeway track of Church Street to the Hackey Brook that was diverted underground in Victorian times by Joseph Bazalgette.
		Abney Park aimed to be quite distinct from what was otherwise being designed in the name of 'burial reform'; and its architecture and landscape was to reflect this utterly.
		Abney Park became closed to burials, but the Council, out of courtesy to local peole with relatives in the grounds, operated a policy of permitting discretionary burial where it did not interefer with conservation management and public amenity.
	abneypark.ground-level.org /history (2379 words)

	Abney Park Cemetery Trust: NATURE & LANDSCAPE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The lower parts of Abney Park were known as 'the wilderness' and retained a little more of their former wooded character, along with an ancient hedgerow, before leading down to the Hackney Brook which formed the park boundary.
		The original cemetery was laid out with 2,500 trees and shrubs from all over the world by the time of its opening in May 1840, This collection was gradually added to during the ownership and management of Abney Park Cemetery by the Joint Stock Company, which lasted until 1882.
		For example, Abney Park is nationally important as the main place in the UK where the Service Tree of Fontainebleau Sorbus latifolia has naturalised extensively; as also the Various-leaved Hawthorn Crataegus heterophylla.
	abneypark.ground-level.org /nature (3854 words)

	William Samuel Malandain and Jane Bull
		William died in Romford and was buried at Abney Park Cemetery on 12 February 1918.
		She died in Shoreditch on 29 December 1872 and was buried at Abney Park Cemetery on 4 January 1873.
		She died in Shoreditch and was buried at Abney Park Cemetery on 13 March 1888.
	members.shaw.ca /mallandaine/david.6.13.html (298 words)

	BBC - London - Your London - United Colours - London's cemeteries - Abney Park
		Abney Park is now Hackney's first Local Nature Reserve and is managed both as a reserve and a local leisure resource by the Abney Park Trust, which works to rehabilitate the Cemetery and to educate about the biodiversity found in the Park.
		Abney Park was unusual at the time in that it was expressly a place for non-conformists (persons who rejected the ceremonial and liturgy of the Church of England, instead worshipping in Methodist, Baptist, Congregationalists, Wesleyan and other chapels; the Quakers and Salvationists are similar groups).
		The cemetery's chapel, in a fine gothic style, was part of the original installation of Abney Park.
	bbc.co.uk /london/yourlondon/unitedcolours/cemeteries/abney_park.shtml (827 words)

	Victorian London - Death and Dying - Cemeteries - Abney Park
		ABNEY PARK CEMETERY and Arboretum, lying eastward, at Stoke-Newington, was opened by the Lord Mayor, May 20, 1840.
		It was formed from the Park of Sir Thomas Abney, the friend of Dr. Isaac Watts, to mark whose thirty-six years' residence here a statue of the Doctor, by Baily, R.A., was erected in 1845.
		The Abney mansion was taken down in 1844; many of the fine old trees remain.
	www.victorianlondon.org /death/abneypark.htm (163 words)

	19th Century Cemeteries
		This cemetery with its serpentine paths was set out on a hill to the east of the city in 1804.
		The cemetery was to be both a burial ground and an arboretum and the Company planted over 2,500 varieties of shrubs and trees and over 1,000 species of rose bushes, but this was never consecrated and was therefore available to all denominations.
		Dissenters from the established Church favoured the cemetery, but possibly due to their thrifty habits, the cemetery lacks the grand monuments to be found in Kensal Green or Highgate.
	home.vicnet.net.au /~foskc/19th_century_cemeteries.htm (1791 words)

	N16, Stoke Newington's own magazine Issue 20 Winter 2003/4
		All of Abney Park’s original Trustees were Congregationalists, though it was also open to ‘all classes of the community and to all denominations of Christians without restraint in forms’.
		The handsome gates at the entrance to Abney Park Cemetery, restored in the late 1990s, were designed in the ‘Egyptian Style’ associated in this period with funerary architecture, and hieroglyphs engraved over the cemetery lodge-houses proclaimed ‘The Gates of the Abode of the Mortal Part of Man’.
		The cemetery is now slowly being restored to some of its former grandeur and beauty by the Abney Park Trust, though there are some locals who seem to take greater pleasure in its more overgrown and labyrinthine pathways and copses, than in the areas which have been cleared and tided up.
	www.n16mag.com /issue20/p9i20.htm (628 words)

	Cemetery - Derelict London
		Abbey Park Cemetery is an eery, tranquil Victorian Gothic graveyard,as a burial ground for
		This Jewish part of the main cemetery is walled off from the main cemetery and closed to the public.
		This disused cemetery of 29 acres is the largest area of woodland in east London.
	www.derelictlondon.com /cemetery.htm (1826 words)

	Dark Romance - Book of Days - Abney Park Cemetery
		The storied history of London's Abney Park Cemetery began with the design of Lady Mary Abney to create gardens on the 32 acres of Stoke Newington Manor at the beginning of the 18th Century.
		It was over 100 years later, in 1840, that Abney Park became a cemetery and arboretum, one of the most beautiful and visionary of its time.
		Abney Park, along with six other great cemeteries, replaced the overcrowded, increasingly unpleasant graveyards of London's churches.
	darkromance.com /dr-bod/dr-bod-0806/dr-bod-080620-abney_cemetery.html (216 words)

	Welcome to The Sheffield General Cemetery: Links
		Abney Park Cemetery in the London Borough of Hackney
		Find out who is buried in this cemetery and how far the project to index the 194,815 burials in the registers is progressing.
		West Norwood Cemetery is one of the metropolitan cemeteries founded to deal with the expanding population of London in the early 19th century.
	www.gencem.org /links.html (237 words)

	Hackney Environment Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Abney was one of seven garden cemeteries around London, known as the Magnificent Seven.
		The Cemetery was planted as an arboretum with a stock of over 2,000 trees and shrubs, including a collection of pines, firs, flowering fruit trees, ash, oak, beech, walnut, plane, some unusual trees such as quince and service tree, and a large rose garden.
		At this time, Abney Park had one of the largest collection of named trees and shrubs in Britain, and was more significant than Kew.
	www.clubplan.org /CMS/page.asp?org=2673&name=AbneyTreeWalk1 (275 words)

	British Isles Genealogy - Abney Park Cemetery Index
		The object of this project is to provide an on-line index of the 194,815 burials that took place in this cemetery from 1840 to 1978.
		Abney Park is a large London Cemetery, originally laid out in 1840 as one of a group of new burial grounds designed to relieve pressure on over-crowded churchyards.
		There will still be a need for you to obtain further information on the individual buried at the cemetery.
	www.bigenealogy.com /articles/abneypark.htm (271 words)

	Street Management - Walk details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The footpath beside the New River between Finsbury Park and Clissold Park is closed for repairs and expected to reopen in early July.
		Finally comes the wonderfully eerie Abney Park Cemetery, now a nature reserve, with drunkenly leaning tombstones surrounded by a wealth of trees and shrubs.
		The entrance used by the Capital Ring into Abney Park Cemetery has five steps, which can be avoided by continuing outside to the finish of the section at Stoke Newington station, with a level entrance nearby if you wish to explore the cemetery.
	www.tfl.gov.uk /streets/walking/walkdetails.asp?id=22 (398 words)

	CD Baby: ABNEY PARK: From Dreams Or Angels - from payplay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Abney Park began in nebulous, seedy bars, etching a following with dark electronica reminiscent of Depeche Mode and Billy Idol.
		Abney Park has produced a number of CDs including 'Return to the Fire', 'Cemetery Number 1', From Dreams and Angels' and Twisted and Broken'; the latter of which has been called a tribute CD by the artists who contributed to it (consisting of some of the biggest names in the underground music scene).
		Abney Park has also appeared on sound tracks for movies and video games as well as a variety of compilation CDs including Cleopatra Record's Unquiet Grave 3.
	cdbaby.com /cd/abneypark/from/payplay (512 words)

	The Development of Parks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The grounds of Abney House had been taken over by the Abney Park Cemetery Company and opened in 1840.
		Loddiges was a shareholder and was able to prevail on the manager, George Collison to allow him to plant a huge arboretum made up from 2,500 species of trees.
		Sadly the arboretum need not survive the cemetery company’s need for more burial space and was all cleared away in the ensuing years, losing the original idea of Abney Park Cemetery as a park and place of recreation.
	www.hackney.gov.uk /print/ca-gardenhistory-loddigespark (196 words)

	Defend Abney Park - Online Petition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Abney Park Garden Cemetery is a 32-acre historic park and nature reserve in Hackney, north London - one of Britain's poorest inner-city boroughs.
		We, the undersigned, object to the current design proposed for the school at 17 Manor Road, London N16 as of 26th May, 2005, on the grounds that its excessive scale and insensitive design render it intrusive and damaging to its surroundings, and particularly to Abney Park Cemetery.
		We call on the London Borough of Hackney to respect its own guidelines for the protection of Abney Park cemetery and the Stoke Newington Conservation Area.
	www.gopetition.co.uk /online/6520.html (297 words)

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		The request for a formal Scheme of Management to be implemented as part of the conditions of the grant of a Faculty to manage the consecrated parts of the cemetery has only evoked a feeble response from Lambeth.
		The full text of the draft UDP entry on the cemetery, which is subject to final approval by the Council, is given below: "The other conservation area worthy of a special mention is West Norwood.
		The Abney Park Cemetery Trust now manages Abney Park success-fully on behalf of the London Borough of Hackney and the people of the Borough.
	www.fownc.org /newsletters/no19.doc (1305 words)

	Association Significant Cemeteries Europe
		The formation of a number of groups of volunteers with the common aim of conserving their local cemeteries led in 1986 to the founding of the National Federation of Cemetry Friends, which now counts 43 members spread all around United Kingdom.
		Many of the Cemetery Friends started as pressure groups to counter owners' neglect of a cemetery or proposals for inappropriate use.
		There are, unfortunately, some cemeteries that have no "friends" and are still sadly neglected, and where vandalism is rife.
	www.significantcemeteries.net /significant/federation/Intro.html (211 words)

	Abney Park
		The world of Abney Park has only been around since about 1998,and for most of those four years Abney Park was very much underground, playing every seedy dive on the west coast.
		Then In 1999, Abney Park released Return To The Fire, our first full length album, and in 2000 we released a collection called Cemetary #1, which contained every song released at that point, including much of our earlier work.
		The most recent release is From Dreams Or Angels, the fourth release by Abney Park.
	www.abneypark.com /2002/disco.htm (155 words)

	www.myspace.com/abneypark
		"Abney Park can be found at the exotic musical crossroads where quintessential gothic artists like Peter Murphy and Rammstein meet the sensual, worldbeat, dark sounds of Vas or Dead Can Dance.
		While their sound and lyrics are firmly grounded in gothic roots (the band's name is taken from a cemetery in Great Britain) their visual aesthetic and playful backstory is uniquely steampunk.
		Indeed, Abney Park may be the only, and certainly the primary band flying the banner of steampunk culture, mixing the gentle and genteel delights of high tea and lace with the mechanical pulse of technology, while conjuring images of comforting darkness and cruel death.
	www.myspace.com /abneypark (778 words)

	Landscape & Garden History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		BARKER, THOMAS B. Abney Park Cemetery: a complete descriptive guide to every part of this beautiful depository of the dead.
		An argument in behalf of the pending ordinance to create on the northwest side of the City Hall, a public park or plaza, together with the comments of the press and prominent citizens.
		The Buttes-Chaumont is a park in the Belleville District of Paris, laid out on the site of old quarries, very hilly, and one of the most picturesque gardens of the city.
	www.cbwoodbooks.com /catalog124-1-25.htm (3063 words)

	Hays, Mary (1760-1843) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Mary Hays was born in 1760 to a family of Dissenters in Southwark (near London).
		She was buried at Abney Park Cemetery in Stoke Newington, London, where over 160 years later her simple grave still exists and could be located thanks to the help of the cemetery staff.
		The grave of Mary Hays at Abney Park Cemetery, London.
	www.xs4all.nl /~androom/dead/p010000.htm (521 words)

	Australian Pickburn Family Biographies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The remains were then afterwards conveyed to Abney Park Cemetery, and interred in the family vault.
		Married in the Church of England, Kelso, NSW on 8 Jun 1850 to Prosper John de Mestre, the son of Prosper and Mary Ann de Mestre of 'Terrara', Shoalhaven, NSW.
		Janetta died on 27 November 1918 at Ashley Street, Chatswood, NSW and is buried in the Presbyterian Cemetery, Gore Hill, NSW.
	www.pickburndemestre.com.au /biog.html (5516 words)

	Friends of West Norwood Cemetery
		A resource of cemetery burial records and tombstone inscriptions for genealogical purposes.
		To increase knowledge and appreciation of the cemetery, the Friends hold general tours on the first Sunday of every month.
		We also hold special themed tours of the cemetery during the summer, and meetings with talks during the winter.
	www.fownc.org /reviews/links.shtml (676 words)

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