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Overleigh Cemetery

Cheshire West and Chester, United Kingdom · built 1850

Overleigh Cemetery is a large municipal burial ground adjacent to the approaches to Grosvenor Bridge on the south side of the River Dee in Chester, Cheshire, England. The cemetery was created in the mid-19th century by a private company but was taken into public ownership in the 1930s. The original part of the cemetery is listed at Grade II in the National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. Since 2009, it has been owned and managed by the unitary authority Cheshire West and Chester.

Cemetery data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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