Key Hill Cemetery
Key Hill Cemetery, originally called Birmingham General Cemetery, is a cemetery in Hockley, Birmingham, England. It opened in 1836 as a nondenominational cemetery, and is the oldest cemetery, not being in a churchyard, in Birmingham.Photo: Robin Stott, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Cemetery
- Description: Cemetery in Birmingham, UK
- Also known as: “Birminghamm General Cemetery” and “General Cemetery, Birmingham”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Jewellery Quarter station and Museum of the Jewellery Quarter.
Jewellery Quarter station
Railway station
Photo: Tagishsimon, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Jewellery Quarter station is a combined railway station and tram stop, situated in the Jewellery Quarter of Birmingham, England. The station is served by West Midlands Trains, Chiltern Railways, and West Midlands Metro. Jewellery Quarter station is situated 520 feet south of Key Hill Cemetery.
Museum of the Jewellery Quarter
Museum
Photo: Cams0ft, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Museum of the Jewellery Quarter is a museum at 75–79 Vyse Street in Hockley, Birmingham, England. It is one of the nine museums run by the Birmingham Museums Trust, the largest independent museums trust in the United Kingdom. Museum of the Jewellery Quarter is situated 580 feet east of Key Hill Cemetery.
Warstone Lane Cemetery
Cemetery
Photo: Oosoom, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Warstone Lane Cemetery, also called Brookfields Cemetery, Church of England Cemetery, or Mint Cemetery, is a cemetery dating from 1847 in Birmingham, England. Warstone Lane Cemetery is situated 990 feet south of Key Hill Cemetery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jewellery Quarter and Gun Quarter.
Jewellery Quarter
Suburb
Photo: Brian Clift, CC BY 2.0.
The Jewellery Quarter is an area of central Birmingham, England, in the north-western area of Birmingham City Centre, with a population of 19,000 in a 1.07-square-kilometre area.
Gun Quarter
Locality
The Gun Quarter is a district of the city of Birmingham, England, which was for many years a centre of the world's gun-manufacturing industry, specialising in the production of military firearms and sporting guns.
Lozells
Suburb
Lozells is a loosely defined inner-city area in West Birmingham, England. It is centred on Lozells Road, and is known for its multi-racial population. It is part of the ward of Lozells and East Handsworth and lies between the districts of Handsworth and Aston.
Key Hill Cemetery
- Category: burial
- Location: Birmingham, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
52.49098° or 52° 29′ 28″ northLongitude
-1.91456° or 1° 54′ 52″ westOpen location code
9C4WF3RP+95OpenStreetMap ID
way 142100305OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=cemeteryWikidata ID
Q6398044
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Swedish—“Key Hill Cemetery” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Key Hill qəbiristanlığı”
- French: “cimetière de Key Hill”
- French: “Cimetière de Key Hill”
- Galician: “cemiterio de Key Hill”
- Swedish: “Key Hill Cemetery”
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