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St Mary's Churchyard, Hendon

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The churchyard is well maintained, and it has many tombs and memorials in the grass, which is kept long in parts. There are fine cedar and yew trees. A line of headstones on either side of the path lead to the church door, and they form part of the best collection of eighteenth century headstones in
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A church may have existed on the site as early as the ninth century, and there is an eleventh-century font still in use in the existing building. Parts of it date back to the thirteenth century, but there were successive alterations until it was extended in 1914–15. It has a memorial to
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London. Burials go back seven to eight hundred years, and as a result the soil contains fragments of bone. Part of it is gravelled, which is unusual in Christian graveyards. It is still open for cremation burials.
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According to a history of Hendon published in 1890, the earliest surviving grave is that of Thomas Marsh dated 1624. Fine monuments include the grave of the engraver
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The churchyard also holds the burial of the medic Robert Thomas Crosfield: an alleged conspirator in the
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Imagining the king's death : figurative treason, fantasies of regicide, 1793–1796
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There are twenty Commonwealth service personnel buried in the churchyard, eleven from
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London Metropolitan Archives, Saint Mary, Hendon: Hendon Church End, Barnet
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A Collection of Epitaphs and Monumental Inscriptions, Ancient and Modern
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There is access to the churchyard from Church End and Church Terrace.
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The Parish of St Mary and Christ Church, Hendon, home page
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Churchyards of Greater London: Decay and Resurrection
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The following is inscribed on his memorial – 685:Hendon Park and Northern Line Railway Cutting 590:Copthall Railway Walk and Copthall Old Common 453: 282:"Hendon and District Archaeological Society, 8: 490:Arrandene Open Space and Featherstone Hill 460: 446: 438: 871:Religion in the London Borough of Barnet 276: 274: 272: 206:"Sunny Hill Park and Hendon Churchyard" 197: 105:, writer and the wife and muse of poet 740:Northern Line Embankment, High Barnet 249: 247: 245: 156:He laughed when sober and when mellow 154:Who cares not now who laughs or cries 152:Beneath this stone TOM CROSFIELD lies 69:Sunny Hill Park and Hendon Churchyard 7: 705:Mill Hill Old Railway Nature Reserve 158:Was a Harum scarum heedless Fellow 14: 790:St Pancras and Islington Cemetery 735:North Middlesex Golf Course Ponds 257:. London Parks and Gardens Trust 160:He gave to None designed Offence 655:Glebelands Local Nature Reserve 505:Barfield Allotments Nature Park 575:Clitterhouse Recreation Ground 255:"St Mary's Churchyard, Hendon" 1: 710:Mill Hill Substation Pastures 585:Coppett's Wood and Scrublands 389:Nature Conservation in Barnet 540:Brent Reservoir (Welsh Harp) 181:Barnet parks and open spaces 45:St Mary's Churchyard, Hendon 555:Burtonhole Lane and Pasture 135:The grave of Tom Crosfield. 892: 750:Oakleigh Park Rail Cutting 675:Hampstead Heath Extension 520:Bell's Hill Burial Ground 510:Barnet Countryside Centre 475: 347:. The Author. p. 254 186:Nature reserves in Barnet 164:Honi soit qui mal y pense 113:, the pre-war manager of 840:Woodridge Nature Reserve 530:Big Wood and Little Wood 480:Arkley Lane and Pastures 341:Graham, William (1821). 67:, and it is part of the 61:London Borough of Barnet 695:Lakeside Nature Reserve 391:. 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Arsenal Football Club
Herbert Chapman
St Mary's Church
Hendon
London Borough of Barnet
Sunny Hill Park
Site of Local Importance for Nature Conservation
Stamford Raffles
Singapore
Abraham Raimbach
James Parsons
Emily Augusta Patmore
Coventry Patmore
Herbert Chapman
Arsenal Football Club
World War I
World War II

Popgun Plot
King George III
Honi soit qui mal y pense
Barnet parks and open spaces
Nature reserves in Barnet
"Sunny Hill Park and Hendon Churchyard"
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"iGiGL – helping you find London's parks and wildlife sites"
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