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The Friends of Belgrave
Cemetery Leicester, England Protecting the past and caring for the future since 2004 |
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The Friends of Belgrave
Cemetery Leicester, England Protecting the past and caring for the future since 2004 |
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Welcome to the Friends of Belgrave Cemetery Group The Group was formed in September 2004 to protect, preserve and to promote interest in this Victorian cemetery. Despite being close to busy road junctions, Belgrave Cemetery is a haven of peace and tranquillity. It covers 5.5 acres and was opened in May 1881. It is no longer possible to purchase a grave but Belgrave is still a working cemetery with 4505 burial plots which were sold with perpetual burial rights. A chapel was included in the original plans. It was demolished in the 1960s. The Cemetery Keeper's lodge remains, but now has no connection with the cemetery and is used by Leicester City Council.
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are forty-eight Commonwealth War Graves of men from both world wars, and
over one hundred memorials to men killed in action and buried in foreign
war cemeteries. Three former Lord Mayors, several aldermen and a
chief of Leicestershire Police are buried here.
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