Saint Raymonds School

Saint Raymonds School is a school in Philadelphia, Philadelphia Region, Pennsylvania. Saint Raymonds School is situated nearby to the hamlet Cedarbrook, as well as near the neighborhood West Oak Lane.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Stenton station and Ivy Hill Cemetery.

Stenton station

Railway station

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Stenton station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station at 529-599 Vernon Road between Ardleigh and Blakemore Streets in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The station is in zone 2 on the Chestnut Hill East Line, on former Reading Railroad tracks, and is 8.6 track miles from Suburban Station. Stenton station is situated 1 mile southwest of Saint Raymonds School.

Ivy Hill Cemetery

Cemetery

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Ivy Hill Cemetery is a public cemetery and crematorium located at 1201 Easton Road in the Cedarbrook neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Chartered in 1867, it is 80 acres in size and was originally named the Germantown and Chestnut Hill Cemetery. Ivy Hill Cemetery is situated 4,100 feet west of Saint Raymonds School.

Sedgwick station

Railway station

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Sedgwick station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station at 253 East Mount Pleasant Avenue between Sprague and Devon Streets in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The old station building was built in 1882 with Furness & Evans as the architect, but was damaged in an arson fire around 1980 and demolished. Sedgwick station is situated 1¼ miles southwest of Saint Raymonds School.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cedarbrook and West Oak Lane.

Cedarbrook

Hamlet

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Cedarbrook is an unincorporated community in Cheltenham Township in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. Cedarbrook is located at the intersection of Pennsylvania Route 309 and Greenwood Avenue, just over the city line of Philadelphia.

West Oak Lane

Neighborhood

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In the mid-1800s, Joseph Wharton, founder of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and co-founder of Bethlehem Steel, owned much of West Oak Lane.