East Greenwich Pleasaunce

East Greenwich Pleasaunce is a public park in East Greenwich, in south-east London. It is situated to the north side of the railway line between Maze Hill and Westcombe Park railway stations and south of the A206 Woolwich Road.

Plaque regarding mass burial site at East Greenwich Pleasaunce.

The park, opened in 1857, was originally the graveyard of Greenwich Hospital. Due to construction of a railway tunnel as part of the London and Greenwich Railway, the remains of around 3000 sailors and officers, including those who fought in the Battle of Trafalgar and the Crimean War were removed from the Hospital site in 1875 and reinterred in the Pleasaunce (named after the former Royal Palace of Placentia or Palace of Pleasaunce).^[1]

Those buried in the Pleasaunce include:

Lieutenant James Berry (d.1930), Curator of the Royal Naval Museum for 17 years
Sir John Liddell (d. 29 May 1868), Director-General of the Medical Department of the Royal Navy (1855-1864)^[2]
Anthony Sampayo, French Ambassador to England
James Shepherd (d.1907) for 18 years Queen Victoria's boatswain's mate on the Royal Yacht HMY Victoria and Albert II

There are 19 Commonwealth naval personnel burials of the 1914-1918 war and two from the 1939-1945 war.^[3]

In 1926 the Pleasaunce was sold to the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich, the Admiralty reserving rights of further burials. Railings around the tombstones were removed and part of the ground was landscaped as a park.

Today, the Pleasaunce has a small children's playground (installed in 2001), a community centre (The Bridge,^[4] formerly the under-5s One O'clock Club run by Royal Borough of Greenwich), a cafeteria and a small war memorial.

References

↑ Park Explorer- East Greenwich Pleasaunce, Greenwich Council - East Greenwich Pleasaunce
↑ Obituary: Sir John Liddell, KCB, MD, British Medical Journal, 6 June 1868, p.574.
↑ "Greenwich Royal Naval Cemetery". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 10 February 2014.
↑ "The Bridge". FEGP. Retrieved 9 June 2015.

External links

Friends of East Greenwich Pleasaunce

Coordinates: 51°29′05″N 0°00′50″E / 51.4846°N 0.01402°E / 51.4846; 0.01402

Cemeteries in London

Cemeteries	Beckenham Bell's Hill Burial Ground Brockley and Ladywell Brookwood Bunhill Fields Charlton City of London Croydon East Finchley East London Golders Green Jewish Great Northern Gunnersbury Hampstead Hanwell (Kensington's) Hanwell (Westminster's) Hither Green Isleworth Lambeth New Southgate Paddington Putney Vale Queen's Road Richmond St Mary's Roman Catholic St Pancras and Islington Southgate Trent Park West Ham Jewish Willesden Jewish

The Magnificent Seven	Abney Park Brompton Highgate East and West Kensal Green Nunhead Tower Hamlets West Norwood

Former cemeteries	All Hallows Bread Street All Hallows Lombard Street All Hallows Staining Cross Bones East Greenwich Pleasaunce Enon Chapel Holy Trinity the Less Holy Trinity, Minories Quaker Gardens St Alban, Wood Street St Alphage London Wall St Andrew St Antholin St Botolph's Aldgate St Dionis Backchurch St Matthew Friday Street St Helen's Bishopsgate St James Duke's Place St John the Evangelist St John Zachary St Katherine St Leonard, Eastcheap St Martin Outwich St Martin Pomary St Martin Vintry St Mary Aldermanbury St Mary Colechurch St Mary Magdalen St Mary Somerset St Mary Woolchurch Haw St Mary Woolnoth St Michael Queenhithe St Michael, Cornhill St Mildred, Poultry St Olave St Peter le Poer St Peter, Paul's Wharf St Sepulchre

Crematoria	City of London Croydon Golders Green West London West Norwood

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