Hamilton Road Cemetery, Deal, Kent
Visited April 2017
Just outside the centre of the coastal town of Deal, about 15 minutes walk from the station or the beach, is the Victorian cemetery, opened in 1856. It contains a number of military graves - perhaps not surprising as Deal has long been a town with miliary connections - and there is a very comprehensive wikipedia article about the military graves.
The cemetery contains a large number of graves, some of which have fallen into disrepair. Most are simple gravestones; there are not a lot of large memorials or ostentatious mausoleums here. It's a large cemetery, but the grounds are well maintained, with mown lawns and suchlike in the newer areas, and trees are plentiful but small and bushy in the main, so you're unlikely to get lost. The cemetery is now maintained by Dover Council, and is still open for new burials.
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