Ascension Parish Burial Ground
The Ascension Parish Burial Ground, formerly known as the burial ground for the parish of St Giles and St Peter's, is a cemetery off Huntingdon Road in Cambridge, England.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Opening hours: sunrise—sunset
- Type: Cemetery
- Denomination: Anglican
- Description: cemetery in Cambridge, England
- Also known as: “St Giles and St Peter Burial Ground”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Churchill College and Fitzwilliam College.
Churchill College
University
Photo: David Gruar, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Churchill College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. It has a primary focus on science, engineering and technology, but retains a strong interest in the arts and humanities. Churchill College is situated 1,400 feet south of Ascension Parish Burial Ground.
Fitzwilliam College
University
Photo: SS1981, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fitzwilliam College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. The college has origins from 1869, with the foundation of the Non-Collegiate Students Board, a venture intended to offer academically excellent students of all backgrounds a chance to study at the university. Fitzwilliam College is situated 1,600 feet southeast of Ascension Parish Burial Ground.
Murray Edwards College
University
Photo: Cmglee, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Murray Edwards College is a women-only constituent college of the University of Cambridge. It was founded in 1954 as New Hall and renamed in 2008. The name honours a gift of £30 million by alumna Ros Edwards and her husband Steve, and the first President and woman Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, Dame Rosemary Murray. Murray Edwards College is situated 2,100 feet southeast of Ascension Parish Burial Ground.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Eddington and Cambridge Castle.
Eddington
Suburb
Photo: Keith Edkins, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The North West Cambridge Development is a University of Cambridge site to the north west of Cambridge city centre in England. The development is meant to alleviate overcrowding and rising land prices in Cambridge.
Cambridge Castle
Locality
Cambridge Castle, locally also known as Castle Mound, is in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England. Built after the Norman Conquest of England in 1066 to control the strategically important route to the north of England, it played a role in the conflicts of the Anarchy and the First and Second Barons' Wars.
Cambridge
Photo: Cmglee, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cambridge is a university city in Cambridgeshire in England. It is a city of crocuses and daffodils on the Backs, of green open spaces and cattle grazing only 500 yards from the market square.
Ascension Parish Burial Ground
- Category: burial
- Location: Cambridge District, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.21748° or 52° 13′ 3″ northLongitude
0.09983° or 0° 5′ 59″ eastOpen location code
9F42638X+XWOpenStreetMap ID
way 33100510OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=cemeteryOpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=anglicanWikidata ID
Q4803837
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Swedish—“Ascension Parish Burial Ground” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Ascension Parish Burial Ground”
- Asturian: “cementeriu de la parroquia de l’Ascensión”
- Catalan: “Cementiri de la parròquia de l’Ascensió (Cambridge)”
- Chinese: “剑桥升天堂区墓地”
- Chinese: “剑桥升天教区墓地”
- Chinese: “剑桥大学教师墓地”
- Chinese: “劍橋升天教區墳場”
- Chinese: “劍橋大學教師墓地”
- Chinese: “劍橋昇天教區墓地”
- Chinese: “阿森松教区墓地”
- French: “Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge”
- French: “cimetière d’Ascension Parish”
- French: “Cimetière d’Ascension Parish”
- German: “Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge”
- German: “Ascension Parish Burial Ground”
- Hungarian: “Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge”
- Japanese: “アセンション教区墓地”
- Manx: “Ruillick Ascension Parish”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge”
- Portuguese: “Ascension Parish Burial Ground”
- Slovenian: “Ascension Parish Burial Ground”
- Slovenian: “Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground”
- Slovenian: “pokopališče župnije Ascension”
- Slovenian: “St Giles and St Peter Burial Ground”
- Spanish: “Ascension Parish Burial Ground”
- Spanish: “cementerio de la parroquia de la Ascensión”
- Spanish: “Cementerio de la parroquia de la Ascensión”
- Swedish: “Ascension Parish Burial Ground”
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