Mill Road Cemetery
Victorian parish burial ground of Gothic monuments and tree-lined paths, closed to new burials.
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This guide to Mill Road Cemetery in Cambridge starts at the gate on an ordinary funeral day in eighteen ninety-nine, when the custodian, Thomas Stanbridge, saw two men arrive with a handcart and a headstone. It follows the working family behind the name: sextons who rang bells, wound clocks and dug graves, and a son who carved monuments for thirteen parishes sharing one ground. Best heard walking the paths, close enough to read the bases of the stones.
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