Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge

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The chapel of the Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge

The Ascension Parish Burial Ground, formerly St Giles and St Peter's Parish, is a cemetery just off Huntingdon Road in the north-west of Cambridge, England. (All Souls Lane leads off the Huntingdon Road to it.) It includes the graves of many Cambridge academics and non-conformists of the 19th and early 20th century. A small chapel was also built on the grounds, and currently acts as the workshop of local lettering artist Eric Marland.

[edit] Selected graves

• John Couch Adams
• Hugh Kerr Anderson
• Arthur Christopher Benson
• Zachary Nugent Brooke
• John Cockcroft
• Frances Cornford
• Francis Darwin
• Horace Darwin
• Arthur Eddington
• James Frazer
• Roberto Gerhard
• Sir Richard Jebb

The gravestone of Ludwig Wittgenstein has started to attract small tributes in recent years.

• Horace Lamb
• Desmond MacCarthy
• Alfred Marshall
• George Edward Moore
• Frank Ramsey
• Walter William Skeat
• Walter William Rouse Ball
• Ludwig Wittgenstein