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Kensal Green Cemetery today comprises of grounds, including two conservation areas and the adjoining canal.
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Grave of Charles Babbage at Kensal Green Cemetery
After initially being buried at Kensal Green Cemetery, Ward's remains were removed to the United States on May 20, 1868.
* 2006 – A tornado strikes Kensal Green, North West London, seriously damaging about 150 properties.
In 1832 the first polished tombstone of Aberdeen granite to be erected in an English cemetery was installed at Kensal Green cemetery.
He was buried on 29 December at Kensal Green Cemetery, and a memorial bust sculpted by Marochetti can be found in Westminster Abbey.
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His funeral service on 27 November in Kensal Green, West London was private, and held in accordance with the Zoroastrian religious faith of his family.
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Willesden Junction, Kensal Green and Harlesden station stations all had an effect on the developing village.
Much of the housing is made up of Victorian terraces which have been attracting young professionals unable to afford similar properties in nearby Kensal Green and Queen's Park.
Kensal Green, also referred to as Kensal Rise is an area of London, England.
Kensal Green is a residential area with good transport links to central London, surrounding districts include Willesden Green to the north, Harlesden to the west, Brondesbury and Queens Park to the east and Ladbroke Grove to the south.
The names Kensal Green and Kensal Rise are used somewhat interchangeably by non-residents to denote the same district, although residents differentiate between the areas based on proximity to the local tube and railway stations.
Roughly speaking, the area west of Chamberlayne Road, north of Harrow Road and south of Kensal Rise railway station is considered Kensal Green while that to the east of Chamberlayne Road and north of the station is considered Kensal Rise.
For a 1920s map of what at that time was considered to be Kensal Green, see Brent Council local history.
Since Harrow Road is generally considered to be the southern boundary of Kensal Green and Brent, most residents class Kensal Road and its environs as part of Westbourne Park.
Kensal Green is first mentioned in 1253, translating from old English meaning the King ’ s Holt ( King ’ s Wood ).
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In 1832 Kensal Green Cemetery was opened.
The Catacombs of Kensal Green Cemetery
Kensal Green is the site of Kensal Green Cemetery which is one of the finest cemeteries in London.
Every Sunday in the summer months ( 1 March to end October ) and on the first and third Sunday of the month in the winter months ( 1 November to end February ) the Friends of Kensal Green Cemetery run a tour starting at 14: 00 at the Anglican chapel and lasting 2 hours.
Next door to Kensal Green Cemetery is St Mary's Roman Catholic Cemetery.
He died on the evening of Monday November 19, 1883, at nine o ' clock and was buried on Monday November 26, in Kensal Green Cemetery.
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After Barnes's death in 1841, Dinah Mondet continued to live in their home in Soho Square until her own death in 1852, after which she was buried next to Barnes in Kensal Green Cemetery.
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Kensal Green Cemetery is a cemetery in Kensal Green, in the west of London, England, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
Inspired by the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris and founded in 1833 by the barrister George Frederick Carden, Kensal Green Cemetery comprises 72 acres of beautiful grounds including two conservation areas and an adjoining canal.
Kensal Green Cemetery is home to 33 species of bird and other wildlife.
The cemetery can also be entered through the West Gate ( near the junction with Greyhound Road ), which is also the entrance to the West London Crematorium ( owned and operated by the same company that owns and operates Kensal Green Cemetery ) and St. Mary's Roman Catholic Cemetery, which are in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham.
Founded as the General Cemetery of All Souls, Kensal Green, the cemetery was incorporated in 1832 ( the year that profit-making cemeteries became legal ) as a private company.
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The General Cemetery Company constructed and runs the West London Crematorium within the grounds of Kensal Green Cemetery.
Interment within the catacombs of Kensal Green has always been more expensive and prestigious than burial in a simple plot in the grounds of the cemetery, although less costly than a brick-lined grave or mausoleum.
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Extensive bus services also run from the area, including the No. 18 ( Harlesden-Euston ), No. 6 ( Willesden Bus Garage-Aldwych ), No. 52 ( Willesden Bus Garage-Victoria Station ) and No. 452 ( Kensal Rise-Wandsworth Road ).
* Recent photos ( including the 2007 openday ) and information on Kensal Green Cemetery.
The move was shot entirely on location in early 1967 and contains much period footage of central London including shots of Marble Arch, Trafalgar Square, Little Venice and Kensal Green.
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Within the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea survive two cemeteries dating from second quarter of the 19th century: Brompton, & Kensal Green.
Of the two, Kensal Green is the earlier in date being more important historically, and pre-eminent nationally in terms of its influence, importance of people buried there, overall richness and the number of outstanding memorials.
Ainsworth also introduced Dickens to John Forster at Kensal Lodge, initiating a close friendship between the two.
He died two years later, and his grave can be found at Kensal Green Cemetery in London.
The Chapel has one of two working coffin lifts in England, the other is in the Anglican Chapel of Kensal Green Cemetery.
In later years he became almost blind, and he died in poor circumstances at the Château de Bagen, Sauveterre de Comminges, near Barbazon, Haute Garonne, France, ( the Pyrennes mountains ) on 12 October 1865 leaving a widow and two children ; he was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery, London.
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