Cemetery sights in Sydney
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Waverley Cemetery
Many Sydneysiders would die for these views…and that’s the only way they’re going to get them. Blanketing the cliff tops between Bronte and Coogee, the white marble gravestones here are dazzling in the sunlight. Eighty-thousand people have been interred here since 1877, including writer Henry Lawson and cricketer Victor Trumper. It’s an engrossing (and strangely uncreepy) place to explore, and maybe spot a whale offshore during winter.
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Camperdown Cemetery
Take a self-guided tour beyond the monstrous 1848 fig tree into this dark, eerily unkempt cemetery next to St Stephens Church. Famous Australians buried here between 1849 and 1942 include Eliza Donnithorne, the inspiration for Miss Havisham in Dickens’ Great Expectations. Book tours via email: tours@ststephens.org.au.
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St John’s Cemetery
Near to Old Government House, on O’Connell St between Argyle and Campbell Sts, the open, paper-dry lawns of St John’sCemetery comprise Australia’s oldest cemetery (1870), the resting place of many an early settler.
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