Travel to Kensal Green Cemetry?

Question

I live in India and will be coming to the UK next month and staying near the Victoria Train Station. I need to travel to Kensal Green Cemetery. Which is the best and cheapest way to get there using Bus or Tube ?

Answer 1

Get the number 52 bus (destination Willesden or Kensal Rise) from the bus station outside Victoria station. Ask the driver to let you off at the junction of Harrow Road and Ladbroke Grove (depending on the level of traffic this might be a 30-40 minute journey or so). Walk along Harrow Road (to the left), and you'll soon find the cemetry on your left.

This map should make that last part of the journey clear.

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=...

(The bus will be approaching from Ladbroke Grove, and continuing across Harrow Road up Kilburn Lane/Chamberlayne Road)

The fare will cost £2 for a single from a ticket machine at the bus station, but I would advise you to buy an Oyster Card - eg from Victoria tube station (for which you must pay a refundable deposit of £3),, and then the fare will be 90p.

Answer 2

The large and often sadly neglected cemeteries we see in out cities today are a largely nineteenth century phenomena. How they came to be created is the result of a mixture of social and cultural, which originated in the eighteenth century. These factors influenced a number of key individuals in the first half of the nineteenth century and led ultimately to the creation of the garden cemetery. They remain one of the most important legacies of the Victorian age due to their poignant expressions of contemporary religious sensibilities, attitudes to death and the transience of life. Such expressions are reflected in the complex and sentimental symbolism of funerary monuments and architecture.  

All Souls Kensal Green in north west London is one of the finest examples of the Victorian garden cemetery in the world, unmatched in the UK in its range and richness of graves, memorials and mausolea. This web site is a modest celebration of Kensal Green and the people who created it and for whom it is their final resting place. It examines the development of the garden cemetery, looks how Kensal Green came to be built and shows what the cemetery looks like today.

Bus will be the bestr way to travel better to buy Oyster Card - eg from Victoria tube station .