About Richards Cemetery
Richards Cemetery is a cemetery near Chester Center, New London County, Connecticut. It lies about 3.5 mi southwest of Chester Center. The nearest other listed cemetery is Hadlyme Church Burying Ground, about 1.0 mi to the northwest. The nearest funeral home we know of is Robinson Wright and Weymer Funeral Home in Centerbrook, about 5.0 mi away. It is one of 372 cemeteries we list in New London County, and 106 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in New London County dates to 1713. 2 of the 372 listings in New London County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Chester Center. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
41.42255, -72.39056
What Richards Cemetery offers
Not available: we have no confirmed information yet about accepting new burials, cremation options, cremation niches, mausoleum, columbarium, chapel, green burial, veterans section, office on site, parking, wheelchair accessible, restrooms. If you work there or know it well, tell us what it offers.
Nearby cemeteries
- Hadlyme Church Burying GroundEast Haddam, CTChristian cemetery1.0 mi
- Selden CemeteryChester Center, CTCemetery1.1 mi
- Luther CemeteryChester Center, CTCemetery1.3 mi
- Hungerford CemeteryEast Haddam, CTCemetery1.3 mi
- Parker CemeteryEast Haddam, CTCemetery1.7 mi
- Cove CemeteryChester Center, CTCemetery1.7 mi
- Emerson CemeteryEssex Village, CTCemetery1.8 mi
- Cemetery (Joshuatown Road)Essex Village, CTCemetery2.1 mi
- Second CemeteryEast Haddam, CTCemetery2.5 mi
- Tater Hill CemeteryEast Haddam, CTCemetery2.6 mi
Funeral homes near Richards Cemetery
- Robinson Wright and Weymer Funeral Home5.0 miFuneral home · Centerbrook · (860) 767-8000
- Fulton Theroux Funeral Service7.9 miFuneral home · Old Lyme · (860) 434-5954
- Swan Funeral Home9.4 miFuneral home · Old Saybrook · (860) 388-4106
- Aurora-McCarthy Funeral Home11 miFuneral home · Colchester · (860) 537-9611
- Spencer Funeral Home12 miFuneral home · East Hampton · (860) 267-2226
- Affordable Cremation12 miCremation provider · East Hampton · (855) 347-2736
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