The Final Resting Place
The Final Resting Place is a memorial in Hinton, Stroud District, England. The Final Resting Place is situated nearby to the disaster remains Purton Hulks, as well as near the pub Berkeley Arms, Purton.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Purton Hulks and Berkeley Arms, Purton.
Purton Hulks
Disaster remains
Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Purton Hulks or Purton Ships' Graveyard is a number of abandoned boats and ships, deliberately beached beside the River Severn near Purton in Gloucestershire, England, to reinforce the river banks. Purton Hulks is situated 650 feet southwest of The Final Resting Place.
Berkeley Arms, Purton
Pub
Photo: Chris Gunns, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Berkeley Arms is a public house at Purton, Gloucestershire GL13 9HU. The pub is owned by the Berkeley Castle Estate, under whose ownership it has been closed seeking a new tenant since August 2020. Berkeley Arms, Purton is situated 1,600 feet northeast of The Final Resting Place.
Church of All Saints
Church
Photo: Dave Bushell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of All Saints is situated 2½ miles northwest of The Final Resting Place.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Purton and Purton.
Purton
Village
Photo: Andy Dingley, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Purton is a village on the east bank of the River Severn, 3 miles north of Berkeley, in Gloucestershire, England. The village is in the civil parish of Hinton.
Purton
Hamlet
Photo: Jim Mitchell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Purton is a hamlet on the west bank of the River Severn, in the civil parish of Lydney in Gloucestershire, England. It lies opposite the village of Purton near Berkeley on the east bank of the river.
The Final Resting Place
- Type: Memorial
- Inscription: “The final journey for numerous barges, schooners, ketches and concrete lighters was to be beached on the banks of the River Severn where they lie in a ‘Boat Graveyard’ which protects the canal from the erosive power of the river”
- Category: historic site
- Location: Hinton, Stroud District, Gloucestershire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.73708° or 51° 44′ 14″ northLongitude
-2.45584° or 2° 27′ 21″ westOpen location code
9C3VPGPV+RMOpenStreetMap ID
node 8839328210OpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorial
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