Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park

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Opened in 1841, this 13-hectare cemetery was the last of the so-called Magnificent Seven, then-suburban cemeteries (including Highgate and Abney Park in Stoke Newington) created by act of Parliament in response to London's rapid population growth and overcrowded burial grounds. Some 270,000 souls were laid to rest here until the cemetery was closed for burials in 1966 and turned into a park and nature reserve.

Today it is a quiet, restful site, its Victorian monuments slowly being consumed by creepers.