Magnificent Seven cemeteries

The Magnificent Seven - German to the Magnificent Seven or the magnificent seven - seven large commercial cemeteries of London from the 19th century. Your name were the cemeteries because of their elaborate landscape and architectural design in different styles.

Background

Until the mid-19th century burials found in London churchyards place next to some hospitals and other institutions had their own burial grounds. Meanwhile, however, the population of London had risen from 1 million to about 2.3 million. This high population density led together with the high mortality rate to catastrophic hygienic conditions in the capital, because space for the burial of the dead was no longer sufficiently available. Everywhere was still a little space between the houses, emerged badly run small cemeteries where partly held illegal burials, some bodies were buried only provisionally, the same grave sometimes reassigned after a few months. Of these tombs went out a stench, they also helped that could spread the new epidemics repeatedly, which led in turn to an increase in deaths.

This unsustainable in the long term conditions made ​​the establishment of new cemeteries outside the city needed. 1832 and 1841, privately held companies was between granted permission to do so on the basis of the relevant Act of Parliament (Public Cemeteries Act of 1832). As a result, cemetery companies, such as the London Cemetery Company, which bought up land around London and there established a regulated funeral culture founded.

The " Magnificent Seven" are:

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