On Tuesday, 30 April 2019, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
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> 
> sent from a phone
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> > On 30. Apr 2019, at 15:03, Colin Smale <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > Be careful with these generalisations. This might be true for North 
> > America, but it is not true in the UK, for example, where cemeteries/burial 
> > grounds are historically attached to the village church, at the heart of 
> > the settlement.
> 
> 
> these are graveyards not cemeteries.
> 
> Cemeteries are a relatively modern invention, before the dead were buried in 
> churchyards.
> 
True, Victorian  cemeteries were built on the edge of settlements but they are 
rarely at the edge now.

Phil (trigpoint) 

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