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means Burial grounds where the dead are interred, typically the plots of land adjoining a church or set aside for the purpose.
from From 'grave' plus 'yard.' 'Grave' descends from Old English 'græf,' a trench or place of burial, tied to the verb 'grafan,' to dig — the same digging instinct buried in words like 'engrave' and 'groove.' 'Yard' comes from Old English 'geard,' an enclosure or fenced piece of ground, a cousin of 'garden' and 'orchard.' So a graveyard is, quite literally, an enclosed plot of dug ground — the word built straight from the act of digging a hole in a fenced field.
- prime real estate
- London buries old cemeteries beneath newer ones, stacked
- word origin
- cemetery means sleeping chamber in Greek
- unexpected wildlife
- old graveyards are urban biodiversity hotspots
- saved by the bell
- safety coffins had bells for the prematurely buried
- victorian picnics
- families once strolled and dined among the tombstones
pere lachaise cemetery — paris, france – 44,000 graves including oscar wilde, jim morrison, and balzac
arlington national cemetery — arlington, virginia – 400,000 graves with the tomb of the unknown soldier
highgate cemetery — london, england – victorian cemetery with karl marx and george eliot buried there
old jewish cemetery prague — prague – 12,000 headstones stacked in layers from 1439-1787 due to space constraints