Holyhood Cemetery

Holyhood Cemetery is a cemetery located in Brookline, Massachusetts.

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Type: Cemetery
Description: historic cemetery in Brookline, Massachusetts
Also known as: “Hollyhood Cemetery”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Metropolitan Waterworks Museum and Pine Manor Junior College.

Metropolitan Waterworks Museum

Museum

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The Waterworks Museum is a museum in the Chestnut Hill Waterworks building, originally a high-service pumping station of the Boston Metropolitan Waterworks. Metropolitan Waterworks Museum is situated 1 mile northeast of Holyhood Cemetery.

Pine Manor Junior College

College

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Messina College is an undergraduate constituent college of Boston College. Until 2020 the school was an independent private college in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts referred to as Pine Manor College. Pine Manor Junior College is situated 2,700 feet east of Holyhood Cemetery.

Chestnut Hill station

Railway stop

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Chestnut Hill station is a light rail station on the MBTA Green Line D branch, located off Hammond Street north of Massachusetts Route 9 in the Chestnut Hill neighborhood of Newton, Massachusetts. Chestnut Hill station is situated 2,500 feet north of Holyhood Cemetery.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Chestnut Hill and Thompsonville.

Chestnut Hill

Village

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Chestnut Hill is a village located six miles west of downtown Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It is best known for being home to Boston College and a section of the Boston Marathon route.

Thompsonville

Village

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Thompsonville is one of the thirteen villages within the city of Newton in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. It is located between Newton Centre, Newton Highlands, and Chestnut Hill.

Cleveland Circle

Neighborhood

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Cleveland Circle is an area of Boston, Massachusetts. It is located at the southern tip of Boston's Brighton neighborhood, and more specifically the Aberdeen section of Brighton, near the town of Brookline and village of Chestnut Hill, at the intersection of Beacon Street and Chestnut Hill Avenue.

Holyhood Cemetery

Category: burial
Location: Town of Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

42.32012° or 42° 19′ 12″ north

Longitude

-71.16694° or 71° 10′ 1″ west

Elevation

210 feet (64 metres)

Open location code

87JC8RCM+26

OpenStreetMap ID

way 42091366

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=cemetery

GeoNames ID

4939782

Wikidata ID

Q5887020

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Swedish—“Holyhood Cemetery” goes by many names.

Chinese: “圣洁公墓”
Chinese: “聖潔公墓”
French: “cimetière de Holyhood”
French: “Cimetière de Holyhood”
Hebrew: “בית קברות הוליווד”
Japanese: “ハリウッド墓地”
Japanese: “ホリフッド墓地”
Polish: “Holyhood Cemetery”
Portuguese: “Cemitério Holyhood”
Portuguese: “Holyhood Cemetery”
Russian: “Кладбище Святого Духа”
Slovenian: “Holyhood Cemetery”
Swedish: “Holyhood Cemetery”

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Explore places such as Buttonwood Village and South Brookline.

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