A green oasis close to the city walls. We're a working burial ground with a focus on conservation, heritage and education; run by York Cemetery Trust.
Cemetery Road, York, UK
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For info: our catacombs tours are fully booked today.
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If you’re going to share @heritageopenday in York can you at least share the FULL details.
The catacomb tours are only at certain times and MUST be booked due to limited space. They are all fully booked. We have people turning up that we can’t accommodate.
We're really looking forward to this new walk for this year.
Join Guy Wallbanks at 2pm on Sunday afternoon to discover some of the wild plants which call York Cemtery home.
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🔔 today at 11am and 1pm 🔔
Each year Fulford School Drama Group research the lives of people who are buried with us. Using their research and interpretation, playlets are produced which the students present as graveside performances.
Open to everyone to come and watch.
What a gorgeous selection of handmade beauties, all in and outside the Chapel at York Cemetery until 3pm today.
#York #Handmade #Yorkshire
As well as the Plant & Craft Fair happening tomorrow, we also have Barbershop singing in the chapel on Sunday.
Here’s hoping for lovely weather for both events, do join us!
Plant & Craft Fair
We’re really looking forward to Saturday! We have a great group of local makers with a selection of gorgeous things for you and your home.
Do come and visit between 10am and 3pm.
Craft & Plant Fair : Saturday 8 June
Come along and enjoy our early summer Plant & Craft Fair with craft / makers stalls and more in the chapel.
There will be a plant sale in the grounds and masons will share how they create their incredible pieces.
And, refreshments!
York Cemetery is a treasure box of flora and fauna. In the recent #CityNatureChallenge a few volunteers recorded over 550 observations in just a couple of hours.
This little fellow is a white-lipped snail. It prefers to eat nettles, ragwort and hogweed - all of which grow here.
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Representatives from school attended a ceremony at the Cemetery this morning to commemorate the life of Robert William Smith who was killed in the Beadeker raids in York on 29th April 1942. ❤️💚❤️💚❤️ @YorkCemetery @CityofYork @yorkpress
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The Y9 drama club enjoyed a visit to York Cemetery. They completed a tour with genealogist David Poole and learned about the fascinating people buried in the cemetery, ready for our Living History performance on Saturday 15th June at 11am and 1pm.
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April 24, 1874, died #OTD, British geologist John Phillips. In 1841 he published the first global geologic time scale as the fossil record showed at least 3 distinct eras in #Earth's history🐚🦖 🐒
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We’re taking part in this today! Bring a brolly and take part at 11am ☘️🌿
It's the end of day 2, and York has shot up in the #citynaturechallenge2024 rankings! We are now first place with the most observations and species recorded in the UK so far!🐝Let's extend our lead!
Lets celebrate this February shall we?
This February shows one of the many kinds of lettering found around the Cemetery - lead lettering.
The earliest churchyard memorials to 'ordinary' parishioners tend to be small with naively cut letters, sometimes filled with lead.
The Victorians took the process a stage further with detailed and precise lead lettering. It provided elegant, raised relief text in a contrasting colour, but it was an expensive option.
We are taking part in York Residents Festival on Sunday 28 January between 10am and 3pm.
There will be guided walks, the caracombs will be open and free refreshments.
To research your own links to the Cemetery, the geneaology team will be doing grave searches. – at York, England
