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Margravine Cemetery

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Hammersmith and Fulham council states in its 2008 management plan that the site is designated a Nature Conservation Area of Local Importance. It is a particularly useful space for viewing migrating songbirds, bees and butterflies.
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There is a memorial to the 13 people killed – 11 of them women – in a 1918 explosion at Blake's munitions factory, Wood Lane. It was unveiled in 1920 and Grade II listed in 2017.
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by local architect George Saunders, Margravine Cemetery was opened in 1868 on a site previously occupied by market gardens and orchards, known as
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Margravine closed for new burials in 1951, when the 16.5 acres of cemetery land were restored by the council and designated a 'Garden of Rest'.
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war memorials were relocated from their factory at Greenford to the cemetery in 2002. The World War I memorial is Grade II listed.
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Margravine Cemetery Management Plan 2009–2014, London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, 2009, p18
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The cemetery is now a part of the Barons Court Conservation Area, designated in April 1989.
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style. The third listed grave is that of an Australian gold prospector, with a
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William Stephen Bond (1845-1920) founder of W S Bond local funeral directors
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The cemetery contains a number of distinctive monuments, three of which are
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London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, Margravine Cemetery page
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CWGC Cemetery Report. Breakdown obtained from Casualty Record.
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Jeanne Deroin (1805-1894) Feminist,Socialist and Educationist
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London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham
Barons Court
Hammersmith Burial Board
Two memorials, one a four-sided stone pillar, the other a stone arc. Both are inscribed with names

listed buildings
Eros statue
Piccadilly Circus
Charing Cross Hospital
Gothic architecture
bas relief
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
World War I
World War II
J. Lyons and Co.
George Broad
Sir William Bull, 1st Baronet
Fanny Eaton
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Sir Henry Foreman
Conservative
Peter Leitch
Victoria Cross
Thomas Nicholas (antiquary)
Edward Charles Williams
George Wimpey (businessman)
construction firm of that name
Ethel Webling

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