Trafalgar Cemetery

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    just south of Southport Gate, Prince Edward's Rd, town centre
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A poignant lesson in history can be found in the atmospherically overgrown Trafalgar Cemetery just south of Southport Gate. The graves are those of British sailors who died at Gibraltar after the Battle of Trafalgar (1805).

Further south, Nelson's Anchorage pinpoints the site where Nelson's body was brought ashore after Trafalgar from HMS Victory - preserved in a rum barrel, so legend says. A 100-tonne Victorian supergun, made in Britain in 1870, commemorates the spot.