Cemeteries · West Midlands
Key Hill Cemetery
In or near Birmingham.
Key Hill Cemetery — Cemetery in Birmingham, England.
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About
Key Hill Cemetery is a cemetery in west midlands. Established 1836. (Cemetery in Birmingham, England.) According to Wikipedia: "Key Hill Cemetery, originally called Birmingham General Cemetery, is a cemetery in Hockley, Birmingham, England. It opened in 1836 as a nondenominational cemetery, and is the oldest cemetery, not being in a churchyard, in Birmingham. The principal entrance is on Icknield Street to the west, with a secondary entrance on Key Hill to the north. The cemetery contains the graves of many prominent members of Birmingham society in the late 19th century, to the extent that in 1915 E. Manning felt able to dub it 'the Westminster Abbey of the Midlands'."
- Coordinates
- 52.4910, -1.9146
- Established
- 1836
Sources
- osm: w142100305 (ODbL)
- wikipedia: Key Hill Cemetery (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- commons: Key Hill Cemetery, Jewellery Quarter - geograph.org.uk - 1291015.jpg (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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