Visited January 2016
This quiet garden, less than 10 minutes walk from the busy area around Camden Town tube station, was the burial ground for parishioners of the church of St Martin In the Fields (at Trafalgar Square) from 1802 to 1856. It was subsequently cleared and opened as a garden in 1889.
A few table tombs survive in various states, along with some gravestones along two walls (one set is in the nature conservation area and subsequently inaccessible). Most of the inscriptions are illegible. On an overcast winter day it wasn't very busy, but there's not much to see and the landscaping isn't all that exciting, so I wouldn't go out of my way to visit again. But if you do go, look out in one corner for the tree roots which have gravestones so intertwined that they're inseparable.
And I have no idea why there's a cactus in a pot on one of the stones...
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