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Cemetery at Camperdown, March 4th 1854

Cemetery at Camperdown, March 4th 1854

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Martens, Conrad

State Library of New South Wales

Death and Dying

Cemeteries

Camperdown Cemetery

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Private cemetery in Newtown that was consecrated in January 1849 and remained the main burial ground for the Church of England until the opening of Rookwood in 1868. St Stephen's Anglican church was built in the middle of it in the early 1870s. All but 4 acres of the cemetery were resumed in 1948 to become the Camperdown Memorial Rest Park.

Camperdown

Inner-western suburb, home to the University of Sydney and Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, as well as high-density residential dwellings, mainly gentrified workers' terraces and apartment buildings. It is named after a naval battle in which Governor Bligh took part in 1797.

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Newtown

Inner-west suburb which developed along the main road south from Sydney. It became a prosperous shopping district in the late 19th century, and later a working-class and migrant suburb, now gentrified.

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Camperdown Memorial Rest Park

Large park between Newtown and Camperdown in Sydney's inner west on the site of the former Camperdown Cemetery.

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