Leverington Cemetery

Leverington Cemetery is a historic non-denominational cemetery established in 1745 in the Roxborough neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Type: Cemetery
Denomination: nondenominational
Description: cemetery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Also known as: “Roxborough Cemetery”
Address: 6075 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19128

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Roxborough Branch Library and The Monastery.

Roxborough Branch Library

Library

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Roxborough Branch Library is situated 1,800 feet northwest of Leverington Cemetery.

The Monastery

Historic building

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The Monastery is a historic stone house in Philadelphia, located on Wissahickon Creek at Kitchens Lane. It was built in 1747 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. The Monastery is situated 2,600 feet east of Leverington Cemetery.

AMY Northwest Middle School

School

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The Academy for the Middle Years Northwest Middle School, formerly the William Levering School, is a historic middle school located in the neighborhood of Roxborough, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. AMY Northwest Middle School is situated 1,200 feet south of Leverington Cemetery.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Roxborough and Manayunk.

Roxborough

Neighborhood

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Roxborough is a neighborhood in Northwest Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It is bordered to the southwest, along the Schuylkill River, by the neighborhood of Manayunk, along the northeast by the Wissahickon Creek section of Fairmount Park, and to the southeast by the neighborhood of East Falls.

Manayunk

Neighborhood

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Manayunk is a neighborhood in the section of Lower Northwest Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania. Located adjacent to the neighborhoods of Roxborough and Wissahickon and also on the banks of the Schuylkill River, Manayunk contains the first canal begun in the United States.

Wissahickon

Neighborhood

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Wissahickon is a neighborhood in the section of Lower Northwest Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania, United States. Wissahickon is located adjacent to the neighborhoods of Roxborough and Manayunk, and it is bounded by the Wissahickon Valley Park, Ridge Avenue, Hermit Street, and Henry Avenue.

Leverington Cemetery

Category: burial
Location: Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Region, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

40.03414° or 40° 2′ 3″ north

Longitude

-75.21263° or 75° 12′ 46″ west

Elevation

266 feet (81 metres)

Open location code

87G62QMP+MW

OpenStreetMap ID

way 49890639

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=cemetery

OpenStreetMap attribute

denomination=nondenominational

GeoNames ID

5197794

Wikidata ID

Q102226455

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In Other Languages

“Leverington Cemetery” goes by many names.

Russian: “Леверингтонское кладбище”

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