Putney Old Burial Ground - information from the London Historic Parks and Gardens Trust

Formerly a burial ground, now a garden, 0.3 hectares, situated in Upper Richmond Road (behind Nos. 205-213), in the West Putney conservation area, SW15.

Listed structures: LBII*: Table Tomb at entrance. LBII: Robert Wood Table Tomb; Stratford Canning Table Tomb; Joseph Lucas Table Tomb

Public transport: by rail to Putney Station; by bus: 74, 337.

The burial ground dates from 1763 and became the responsibility of the Putney Burial Board. It contains a number of interesting tombs including a monument to Harriet Thomson and a Coade stone chest tomb with a medallion featuring a mourning woman. After it was closed to burials, it was later opened to the public as a garden in 1886, with a few gravestones and tombs remaining in the grass and a number of mature trees, with entrance gates and brick gatepiers onto the main road.