About Townsend Cemetery
Townsend Cemetery is a cemetery near Lanesborough, Berkshire County, Massachusetts. It lies about 6.4 mi southeast of Lanesborough. It was established in 1814. The nearest other listed cemetery is Gardner Cemetery, about 0.6 mi to the north. The nearest funeral home we know of is Hall & Higgins Funeral Home in Stephentown, about 5.5 mi away. It is one of 118 cemeteries we list in Berkshire County, and 37 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Berkshire County dates to 1758. 5 of the 118 listings in Berkshire County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Lanesborough. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
42.59625, -73.29223
What Townsend 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
- Gardner CemeteryLanesborough, MACemetery0.6 mi
- Gardner Black CemeteryLanesborough, MA · est. 1801Cemetery1.1 mi
- Noah Ely CemeteryLanesborough, MA · est. 1795Cemetery2.0 mi
- New Ashford CemeteryAdams, MA · est. 1776Cemetery3.0 mi
- Hancock CemeteryLanesborough, MA · est. 1791Cemetery3.4 mi
- Southworth CemeteryPittsfield, MA · est. 1791Cemetery4.3 mi
- Gardner CemeteryPittsfield, MA · est. 1798Cemetery4.8 mi
- Riverside CemeteryLanesborough, MACemetery5.0 mi
- Saint Josephs CemeteryAverill Park, NYCemetery5.0 mi
- Southlawn CemeteryWilliamstown, MACemetery5.2 mi
Funeral homes near Townsend Cemetery
- Hall & Higgins Funeral Home5.5 miFuneral home · Stephentown · (518) 733-5362
- Dery Funeral Home7.1 miFuneral home · Cheshire · (413) 743-3678
- Bellevue Memorials8.6 miMonument dealer · Adams · (413) 743-0604
- Trottier-pringle Funeral Home9.0 miFuneral home · Adams · (413) 743-0640
- Paciorek Funeral Home9.2 miFuneral home · Adams · (413) 743-0815
- Dwyer Funeral Home9.7 miFuneral home · Pittsfield · (413) 442-5094
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