The Cemetery Bonanza Locationless, Locationless, Locationless
By stringy on 22-Jul-09. Waypoint GA1531

St Lukes Anglican Church Cemetery Richmond, Tasmania

Logging for the Cacheopoly Game.

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Grabbed a photo of the cemetery while visiting my Nan and Pops grave site.

Located this old cemetery at Rokeby. The Uniting Church Congregational Cemetery. TFTL Using for the Cacheopoly games

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I have always enjoyed visiting cemeteries.
This is my local historical cemetery. 6 years years ago my daughter and I visited and took photos of all the headstones to upload to Billiongraves. It's a site that enables transcription of the headstones so that people can search their ancestry online.

Keilor Cemetery.

"Keilor Cemetery has been serving its diverse, multicultural community’s evolving needs for more than 150 years. Its pioneer graves reflecting the history of its location on the road to the goldfields. Keilor Cemetery is also home to a Gallipoli Oak tree grown from acorns brought back from the battlefields of World War 1. It is an important community monument to those who lost their lives in that conflict. In 2017, GMCT began the release of 5065 new graves in the Ely Court extension. This will help to serve the needs of the local community into the future. With a new extension planned for the existing mausoleum, the Gallery of the Saints, various burial and cremation memorial options, and an on-site florist, Keilor Cemetery is one of our most active community cemeteries."

A quick pic out the front of the Keilor Cemetery for my cemetery bonanza cache for Cacheopoly 2023.

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BUSHY PARK
TASMANIA

The Red Hill cemetery is located on top of a hill about one kilometre from the Bushy Park Post Office. A cemetery with some amazing views. Not forgetting the GC cache that I was here to find.

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S42 05.770 E145 32.255 QUEENSTOWN TASMANIA

I was in the area on a family commitment and took the opportunity to visit my grandparents, uncles and aunts who are now permanent residents here.

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S42 04.418 E`114 E146 36.521 LINDA TASMANIA

I was passing through Linda when I noticed for the first time a small sign pointing the way to the pioneer cemetery. A short drive along a rough track followed by a short walk along a 4WD track I was at the cemetery which was used between 1896 through to 1978.

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S41 17.899 E146 46.277 WINKLEIGH TASMANIA

Driving past on the way to get a FTF on a newly published GC cache I saw this cemetery. Again it supported my theory that a lot of cemeteries are located where there is a very good view.

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S37 38.345 E144 06.073
Mt Egerton cemetery.

A nice old place complete with a trad gc cache.
600m above sea level.
Cheers

S42 41.497 E147 20.671 TEA TREE TASMANIA

This is the St Thomas Church and cemetery near Tea Tree southern Tasmania.

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S41 14.356 E146 32.620 HARFORD TASMANIA

This small cemetery is in a farmer's ploughed up field. The nearby road is called Chapel Lane so I assume at some stage there was a chapel located here.

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S41 22.345 E146 18.308 SHEFFIELD TASMANIA

I stopped here to locate a GC cache which was a quick find.

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S41 25.925 E146 13.174 CLAUDE ROAD TASMANIA

Claude Road Cemetery which is still in use is one of the very many cemeteries located in a very scenic place. For those inclined there is a GC cache here.

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S41 11.091 E146 48.531 BEACONSFIELD TASMANIA

Question: how many people do you think are dead in the Beaconsfield cemetery? Answer; All of them.

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S42 23.939 E147 00.442 BOTHWELL TASMANIA

This cemetery is behind the St Lukes Church at Bothwell.

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S41 09.971 E147 45.374 BRANXHOLM TASMANIA

There is a GC cache at the back of this cemetery which I was after and found when I took this photo.

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S41 56.353 E147 29.479 CAMPBELL TOWN TASMANIA

This is the Campbell town cemetery which is visible from the Midlands Highway. There is a cache located at the back of this cemetery.

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S41 06.113 E147 05.544 PIPERS RIVER CEMETERY

Pipers River is a rural residential locality in the local government areas of George Town and Launceston in the Launceston LGA region of Tasmania. The locality is about 23 kilometres east of the town of George Town. The 2016 census provides a population of 426 for the state suburb of Pipers River.

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S41 36.589 E147 07.015 LONGFORD PIONEER CEMETERY


This cemetery is located in Longford Tasmania. At the time it was in use I suspect that it may have been outside the township.

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Tarrawingee Cemetery is the location of a cache called Two Oaks and a Gate, GC33XJV, and when you see this photo you will know why.
I had the opportunity to visit it yesterday with my son on an escape from isolation drive to Beechworth and back via Tarrawingee

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Having woken early on Anzac Day I decided to go for a walk seeking old locationless caches and Sighter sites. Seemed to be a bit of a theme going.

I started out parking at the mural 'Past Present Future'. "Created by Melbourne-based artist, Adnate, this landmark work pays tribute to a woman who first drew public attention in defence of other Aboriginal people in the 1920s. Pearl Gibbs only stepped away from her activist platform with her death in 1983. She knew and worked with almost every major Aboriginal activist in 20th-century Australia." - boomdubbo

I then went around to the fairly new statue of William Ferguson. "From 1936, when parliament amended the Aborigines Protection Act 1909 to increase its powers to govern Aboriginal people's lives, he began speaking and lobbying for civil rights. He launched the Aborigines Progressive Association (APA) at Dubbo in 1937 and was a witness before the Legislative Assembly's select committee on the administration of the Aborigines Protection Act (which failed to initiate any reform). With William Cooper and John Patten, he organised a Day of Mourning for Aboriginal people on Australia Day 1938." - wikipedia

Having worked on filming a couple of interviews with key players in finding this statue (Riverbank Frank and Paul Rowe) I knew where Bill's grave was. So I went up to see it. It had a new headstone plaque as well as an additional information one. It's good to see the guys finally got what they were working toward, both the guys I was working with and Bill.

Whilst there I recalled a headstone that caught my interest whilst cacheing there, so I wandered over and found it again... just. It was covered in leaf litter. Good thing I could remember it's general appearance and location. It was a simple headstone laying on the ground. The grave is surrounded by built up ones. The inscription was something I hadn't read before either. It was a book with rope and tassel bookmark. On it reads "In loving memory of my only sister, with a brothers love". When I first saw it, it seemed so lonely and sad. I felt for the brother. It seemed he had lost all he had.

On my way back to the car I also found a headstone decoration I have not come across before. A huge crown hanging on a cross. It was HUGE and jewelled.

Attached are photos of my days adventures including a selfie from outside the cemetery.

We were brought to this unusual cemetery via a geocache nearby.
The cemetery was a private one for those who died on the Serpentine Station property.
Twelve people are buried here, half of them young children,
It is a reminder of how harsh life was for our pioneering families.

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Whilst we were out Geocaching we discovered this old marker at the first Rushworth Cemetery. There is nothing here otherwise to show that it is a burial place, no grave markers or tombstones to be seen. Some of my dad's ancestors were buried here, while mum’s were buried at the nearby Whroo cemetery which has been well kept and all graves marked.
Facing East - Rushworth’s First GC6WCM5 can be located here.

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Found this tiny little cemetery at Tunnack in Tasmania today whilst out doing The Devil Geo Art GC series.
Thanks for the opportunity to share this via your Locationless

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While chasing a GC First To Find with locus cache and dalerious, we came to this Cemetery, hidden away, and we found the cache nearby.
There a couple of caches at Gobur and a lovely drive to each of them.
Thanks for the locationless Stringy.

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Barcaldine Qld is in Central Western Queensland. This cemetery is very well cared for. I was talking to a gent here and he told me the history of the Cemetery.
The lawn section is on the Eastern Edge of the area and starting at the fence on the Western edge are the earliest burial sites and over the years the plots ventured to the East. The War graves section is in the middle front. TFTL STRINGY

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Found a cache close by and took the photo for this claim. There was a large group of people further in at the grave sites so did not want to go in and upset any one. The cemetery is the Raglan Qld Cemetery. TFTC STRINGY

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St Mary's cemetery between Canberra and Goulburn, NSW.

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Hall Cemetery, NSW.

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Tumut NSW Cemetery. TFTC stringy.

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Cemetery near Cuppacumalong Homestead, south of Tharwa, ACT. TFTC stringy.

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Adelong cemetery, NSW. TFTC stringy.

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Braidwood Cemetery. TFTC stringy.

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Warwick, Qld. Some family graves. TFTC stringy.

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Jugiong Cemetery, NSW. TFTC stringy.

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Lyndhurst cemetery, NSW. (I left the photographed TB there.) TFTC stringy.

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Galong cemetery, NSW. Goes back to the 1820s. TFTC stringy.

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found 2 cemeteries at Pinjarra.

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This is a cemetery in Broome a part of a GC multi cache.

A lonely grave I found while on a walk trail on the hill above Hamelin Bay WA

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Sunbury Cemetery - explored a bit when finding the nearby multi-cache (Remembering the Children - http://geocaching.com.au/cache/ga3180). Another small step for the States of the Nation challenge.

Buckland cemetery, Vic.
This cemetery has many pioneers buried here.
Thanks for the cache Stringy.

This is Roselawn cemetery on the outskirts of Belfast, Northern Ireland. this is obviously the grave of a keen football fan.

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Finding a Multi at Bangalo Cemetery

I find a cache this afternoon in the park near Kew Cemetery. I know I've found at least one cache inside this Cemetery. I'm not sure if it's still active.

St Matthew's Anglican Cemetery in Sherwood, Brisbane.
Quite a peaceful location given it lies on busy Sherwood Road.
This cemetery is quite old with some headstones dated in the1870s.
Thank you for this cache.

Out of Australia on a cruise but still plenty of cemeteries. This one was very interesting on Norfolk Island with lots of Pitcairn island descendants . Saw author Colleen McCulloughs gravestone as well

We located this cemetery at St Martin's Anglican Church in Sandford, Tasmania. We

St. Martin's Church was recently sold and is no longer a church but a studio for martial arts. Hopefully access to the cemetary will remain open to the public. TFTL

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Shaw Cemetery Newbury in Berkshire. Is the location of our second cousin twice removed. He was Chief Engineer on Shackleton's fateful voyage of the Endurance to Antarctica.

Not far from home so hid a GCA cache for the game & claimed this one, Harley Hill, erroneously probably.

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Very peaceful location here today. Queanbeyan Riverside Cemetery in NSW.

Penguin General Cemetery
The first burial was in 1865 and the cemetery closed in 1997, it was heritage listed in 2007. There were over 1800 burials here and I managed to find the headstones for three of my great grandparents.
There have been a couple of music evenings held in the cemetery, "Music Among The Tombstones: Penguin's twilight celebration of the dead". The events were funded by the Australian government's Better Access to Palliative Care across Tasmania program, through the Tasmanian Association for Hospice and Palliative Care Networking End of Life Care project. One of the music sites in the cemetery was the memorial garden dedicated to almost 80 unnamed children and babies buried there, with the concert finishing with the release of 24 butterflies in their honour.
TFTC

Stopped in at the Corop Cementary while on my travels. A nice old place indeed.

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The Whroo Cemetery near Rushworth, in the old goldfields
It has recently been given a facelift by some wonderful volunteers who are repairing gravestones and have made a huge plaque naming all the people who were buried here in unmarked graves.
Instead of me in the photo I have taken one of my 101 year old Mother standing by her grandfather's grave.
It has a famous inscription on the stone:
"Remember me as you pass by
As you are now, so once was I.
As I am now so you will be,
Prepare yourself to follow me".
I believe it is from a tombstone in Ireland which had the added verse:
"To follow you
I'm not content
Until I know
Which way you went"

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Shepherd's Grave, Goomalling WA

Found this one while caching in Fremantle today.

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I found this in the grounds of Pinegrove Cemetery. Perfect for bird loving people. Photo taken with our GPS and Bowra our trip mascot & TB

Traipsing through the Oakleigh Pioneer Memorial Park on another caching adventure and remembered this cache. I've always found this cemetery interesting as it has no fence and the markers are somewhat impinging on the surrounding sporting area (although the markers were there first).
Thanks for the cache Stringy

Paris may be a strange place to find a pelican, but I found one years ago adorning a grave in the well known Pere Lachaise cemetery, from memory it was the finish point of quite a long multi (all virtual waypoints) that took me 2 evenings to complete. Luckily the visit was in June so it stayed light quite late and I could get out caching after the day's training. Thanks stringy, came across this as part of the current States of the Nation scavenge game. Most other cemetery photos I have don't she me or the GPS in front of anything.

went to Gunning with ACTchil and there are 3 cemeteries here. I really enjoy cemetery caches and reading the tombstones and the history. Will upload photo from my phone.

Greensborough Cemetery, VIC

This little cemetery is tucked away a few streets from our big shopping centre. Many of the locals do not know that it exists. The first recorded burial was in 1861 and the last burial was in 1963. Internment of ashes is still allowed if a family plot is owned.

Thank you stringy for this locationless. I love visiting cemeteries.

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Saint Saviour's Cemetery, Punchbowl, has the first recorded burial as Catherine Elizabeth Pearson (age 36 years) on 19th February, 1878. Although plots can no longer be purchased in the cemetery, people with existing rights can arrange for relatives to be interred here. One of only three remaining cemeteries in the Canterbury area.

Nanango is the 4th oldest town in Queensland and consequently has a number of quite early graves. Prior to gazettal of the Nanango Cemetery Reserve this older cemetery on the Nanango Gold Field was used (1862-1876). The Cemetery known as the Burnett Cemetery is also known local as the Nanango Pioneer Cemetery. The Cemetery was closed to burials in 1876 and a new cemetery was established approximately 2 kilometres to the west on the brow of a hill. The majority here were later exhumed and transferred to the Nanango Cemetery. Many of the graves are not marked. Surprisingly the cemetery was initially established to bury those unfortunate passengers who passed whilst on the cobb and co coach on the way from Ipswich to Gayndah or at the staging post, Goodes inn approximately 200 meters to the south.
majority of graves are for those who TFTL Stringy

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While out grabbing caches for the SoN game, we passed by this cemetery and grabbed a quick locationless. TFTC

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Found with Kittykatch while out and about doing the SoN game. We chose this one as it was on our way home. TFTC

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Forbes Cemetery

On old country cemetery located at Forbes. An interesting spot with some bushranger history.

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Carcoar Cemetery

On old country cemetery just north of Carcoar. An interesting spot.

Thanks stringy

Woodstock NSW

An old cemetery in country NSW with a reputed bushranger link and a nature reserve nearby.

Thanks stringy

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Moorefields Cemetry in Kingsgrove Sydney.

Nestled in among a residential area in Kingsgrove is Moorefields Cemetry. A small Cemetry at the back of a local church. It was constructed in 1851 and contains burial sites for many local pioneers. Many of the old decorative headstones are intact. Worth a visit if you are in the area.

Thanks for an interesting locationless Stringy.
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Woolshed Flat Cemetery located at the Woolshed Flat Methodist Church officially opened in 1859. Found a cache here - an interesting heritage cemetery to visit.

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A small cemetery out in almost the middle of nowhere, on a back road heading for Oberon is the Porters Retreat Cemetery tucked down in the gully. You'd miss this one if it weren't for the little unimportant looking road sign.

MYRA VALE WESLEYAN CEMETERY
MYRA VALE ROAD
WILDES MEADOW NSW

A tiny old cemetery with only a handful of residents is one of many cemeteries in the area to find a cache. This little cemetery has a beautiful view over the rolling green hills to the reservoir.

The St James Anglican Church and Cemetery is on Hobart Road at Youngtown, Tasmania, and is a sneaky little cemetery that I was unaware of until a geocache brought me here today. Picture attached. Thanks Stringy for providing this locationless cache.

Out for a drive and came upon the Christchurch Anglican Cemetery tucked away behind the village green at Longford in northern Tasmania.. thanks..!!

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St David's Park is located on the site of St David's cemetery. St David's Park is a formal English style walled park and dates from the beginning of European settlement in 1804. This was the site of the first burial ground in Tasmania, marked out by Lieutenant-Governor David Collins and the Reverend Robert Knopwood in April 1804. At that time the burial ground was 'a place of real seclusion and rare beauty' crossed by two crystal streams with fine old blackwood trees dotted through the groves of wattle on the high ground, located away from the main settlement and surrounded by an 'exquisite natural shrubbery'. It was called St David's Cemetery as a mark of respect to the memory of the Colony's founding Lt Governor, Lt Col David Collins. Collins himself was buried there in March 1810.

About a year afterwards the first church in Tasmania was built on the spot, with its altar directly above his grave. The opening of the Cornelian Bay cemetery in 1872 allowed St Davids and all the other burial grounds within the city to be closed.

A register compiled at the time shows that at least 900 people were once buried under the lush green turf of St David's Park. Some were reburied at Cornelian Bay, most were allowed to sleep on under the now carefully-tended gardens and lawns. Now only a few of the more important memorials remain - including David Collins, first Lieutenant Governor, interred in a casket of Huon pine.

A stroll around the park's wall of headstones gives a poignant picture of life and death in the colony's early days as there are many headstones for children from those days when children s life expectancy was not very high. There are also memorials to those settlers who came from Norfolk Island to become part of the new settlement in 1807.

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This is the cemetery attached to the Tallebudgera Uniting church, originally the Tallebudgera Presbyterian church. The church was built in 1888 and while land next door was set aside for a cemetery, the oldest recorded grave is 1915. Wandering the grounds its easy to see names of the pioneers of the area - Andrews, Ruddy, Schuster, etc. Names that now live on as street and park names in the area.

According to the church's website, the cemetery is still accepting burials - assuming you have a booking. However, it does have a rose garden with memorial wall which ashes can be interred if requested.

Its a lovely old well kept 'country' cemetery, even if Tallebudgera is more a suburb now.

Thanks for the locationless.

This is the old Catholic Cemetery at Tallebudgera, but used to be the site of St Malachys Catholic Church. I know this because Suzy and Pete have a cache here for geocaching.com.

Its a very old cemetery, the church which used to be here was built in 1878 and was the first Catholic church south of Beenleigh. As a cemetery, its still in use but I think you have to have some connection with Tallebudgera and the pioneering families.

To prove that we were there. I am including a photo of William Dolan's headstone, he was one of the pioneers of Tallebudgera and his wife Margaret was instrumental in raising funds to build the church. I also have a photo of the cemetery in general. You can see some of the newer graves. We found two from 2016.

Thank you for this locationless.

This is the lovely Maffra Cemetery's memorial gates; a cemetery on the outskirts of town as usual in the country. It was quite busy when I arrived so I decided not to intrude on the mourners. TFTC stringy

gathered for the 2017/18 scavenge hunt. Whilst at Australia'a old operating church I took my happy snap of this cemetery beside the church. A lot of history associated with this cemetery containing early settlers of Australia

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This is the large Shepparton Cemetery gateway. There are some very historical graves here and some very large vaults, and mausoleums. It is situated on a hill in Rudd Road, not far from the Goulburn River.
Shepparton Cemetery has a computer index near the toilet block which is accessible to the general public. It lists name, ages of deceased and their burial plot row and number, and religious section.
There is also a free online service where you can obtain photos of headstones.
I take my photos with my iPad which is also my GPS, so unfortunately cannot include that in photo.
Thankyou for the opportunity to log this Locationless, and also as part of the State of the Nation Competition.

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Hi Stringy
Merry Christmas
Found this convict cemetery in Launceston Tasmania
Sainted at 1030hrs
TFTC and cheers
Oldsaint

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Dromana cemetery. Creepy place with a lot of stories associated with it. Not a fun place in the dark of the night.

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This is the old Evandale cemetery, in Pioneer Park, behind the memorial hall. I have heard that it might still be possible to buy a plot here, but have not checked this out.

This is the old Evandale cemetery, in Pioneer Park, behind the memorial hall. I have heard that it might still be possible to buy a plot here, but have not checked this out.

Although I've spent my fair share of time in cemeteries (usually caching) I've never really taken notice of the various facets of a cemetery.
That all changed recently when I was asked to join the Cemetery Trust for Echuca Cemetery. Now I'm much more aware of the complexities of running a cemetery and many considerations that must be given for almost any activities undertaken within the grounds of the cemetery.

I specifically logged this find for the States of the Nation game. Go Victoria.

Thanks Stringy

Found this one on a walk down from Arthurs seat back to the bottom.

This lovely old cemetery named Bethel Cemetery is not far from our home. It is situated in Logan Reserve. TFTC

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I've been meaning to drop in to this cemetery for a few weeks to look for a GC multi but haven't been motivated. The States of the nation game motivated me to stop this afternoon on a late afternoon supermarket run. This is the Sorell Henry Street Anglican Cemetery. Thanks for the opportunity to log this cache.

Queanbeyan Cemetery, NSW.

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Sought this cemetery out for the 2017-18 States of The Nation Game.

It's a grand old place, with plenty of graves placed in the 1800's as well as much newer interments.

The coordinates given are for the spot I took the photo of myself with the cemetery, not with the sign.

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The rabbit cemetery in Lake king.

Dropped in to Tarago Cemetery today to collect a GC multi on my way through to Goulburn on a caching run. Grabbed a snap from the front gate and it seems to qualify for this cache! TFTC stringy

A quick drive by most days on the way to town.
Stopped off for a photo shoot this morning en-route to hosting my first GCA event GA11112
Victoria - States Of The Nation.

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Just remembered to take the photos of the Faulconbridge Cemetery today as i was right there for a moveable. Site of Sir Henry Parkes grave.

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Stopped in a nearby suburb to photograph the cemetery at St Mathews Church, Rokeby. Claiming as part of the States of the Nation games 2017/2018. TFTL

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St John's Cemetery – Parramatta - NSW
The cemetery was established in 1790. Its in the hart of Parramatta.

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Chasing a Letterbox down at Tyabb Public Cemetery in Victoria.
A very old cemetery with some interesting graves and lots of history.

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The All Saints Church of England cemetery - in the background behind this tiny chapel - located at Melton Mowbray in the midlands of Tasmania.. thanks..!!

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