About Central Burying Grounds
Central Burying Grounds is a cemetery near Hamden, New Haven County, Connecticut. The grounds sit at about 102 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 206152. The nearest other listed cemetery is Saint Marys Cemetery, about 1.3 mi to the north. The nearest funeral home we know of is Beecher & Bennett Funeral Service in Hamden, about 0.7 mi away. It is one of 163 cemeteries we list in New Haven County, and 81 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in New Haven County dates to 1793. 1 of the 163 listings in New Haven County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Hamden. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
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41.39037, -72.89566
What Central Burying Grounds 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
- Saint Marys CemeteryHamden, CTChristian cemetery1.3 mi
- New Center CemeteryNorth Haven, CTMunicipal cemetery1.6 mi
- Old Center CemeteryNorth Haven, CTMunicipal cemetery1.8 mi
- Whitneyville CemeteryNew Haven, CTCemetery3.1 mi
- Hamden Plains CemeteryNew Haven, CTCemetery3.4 mi
- Montowese CemeteryQuinnipiac Avenue, New Haven, CTCemetery3.4 mi
- All Saints CemeteryNorth Haven, CTCemetery3.5 mi
- State Street CemeteryNew Haven, CTCemetery3.5 mi
- Sperry CemeteryHamden, CTCemetery4.1 mi
- Saint Casimirs CemeteryWallingford Center, CTChristian cemetery4.1 mi
Funeral homes near Central Burying Grounds
- Beecher & Bennett Funeral Service0.7 miFuneral home · Hamden · (203) 288-0800
- Sisk Brothers Funeral Home1.2 miFuneral home · Hamden · (203) 288-7114
- Washington Memorial Funeral Home1.8 miFuneral home · North Haven · (203) 239-6000
- North Haven Funeral Home1.9 miFuneral home · North Haven · (203) 239-1179
- Granite Swan Memorials2.9 miMonument dealer · North Haven · (203) 239-7926
- Hamden Memorial Funeral Home3.5 miFuneral home · Hamden · (203) 248-5668
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