About Lands End Cemetery
Lands End Cemetery is a cemetery near Newtown, Fairfield County, Connecticut. It lies about 3.3 mi southeast of Newtown. The grounds sit at about 387 feet above sea level. Wikidata records one notable person buried here: Donald Laurence Thomsen, Jr.. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 208379. The nearest other listed cemetery is Old South Cemetery (Sunset Hill Road), about 1.8 mi to the northwest. The nearest funeral home we know of is Honan Funeral Home in Newtown, about 3.0 mi away. It is one of 242 cemeteries we list in Fairfield County, and 81 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Fairfield County dates to 1680. 5 of the 242 listings in Fairfield County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Newtown. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Lands End Cemetery
Among them: 1 scientist.
- Donald Laurence Thomsen, Jr.1921-2005Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1947
People whose Wikidata entry gives Lands End Cemetery as their place of burial, ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions cover them. Names link to Wikipedia where an English article exists. Plot locations are not included; ask the cemetery office.
Map
41.43725, -73.35968
What Lands End 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
- Old South Cemetery (Sunset Hill Road)Danbury, CTCemetery1.8 mi
- United Jewish Center CemeteryDanbury, CTJewish cemetery1.9 mi
- Taunton CemeteryNewtown, CTCemetery2.0 mi
- Merwin Brook Cemetery, 1778-1810Danbury, CTCemetery2.5 mi
- Cemetery (Walnut Hill Road)Bethel, CTCemetery2.7 mi
- Central CemeteryNew Fairfield, CTCemetery3.0 mi
- Newtown Village CemeteryNewtown, CTMunicipal cemetery3.7 mi
- Great Plain CemeteryDanbury, CTCemetery4.2 mi
- Sandy Hook CemeteryNewtown, CTCemetery4.3 mi
- Laure Hill CemeteryNew Fairfield, CTCemetery4.3 mi
Funeral homes near Lands End Cemetery
- Honan Funeral Home3.0 miFuneral home · Newtown · (203) 426-2751
- Brookfield Funeral Home3.9 miFuneral home · Brookfield · (203) 775-3555
- Cornell Memorial Home4.8 miFuneral home · Danbury · (203) 748-4833
- Jowdy-Kane Funeral Home5.4 miFuneral home · Danbury · (203) 748-6262
- Rovelli Monuments5.4 miMonument dealer · Danbury · (203) 743-2176
- Bethel Funeral Home (Cornell Memorial Inc.)5.4 miFuneral home · Bethel · (203) 748-4833
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