Old Burying Ground in Townsend, Massachusetts
Also known as Townsend Center Cemetery
About Old Burying Ground
Old Burying Ground is a cemetery near Townsend, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. The grounds sit at about 315 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 601867. The nearest funeral home we know of is Anderson Funeral Homes Inc in Townsend, about 0.6 mi away. It is one of 284 cemeteries we list in Middlesex County, and 50 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Middlesex County dates to 1649. 9 of the 284 listings in Middlesex County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Townsend. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
42.66981, -71.69382
What Old Burying Ground 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
- Center CemeteryTownsend, MACemetery0.1 mi
- Hillside CemeteryTownsend, MACemetery0.3 mi
- Riverside CemeteryTownsend, MACemetery2.4 mi
- Pine Grove CemeteryBrookline, NHCemetery4.2 mi
- Woodlawn CemeteryPepperell, MACemetery4.3 mi
- Lakeview CemeteryBrookline, NHCemetery4.7 mi
- Walton CemeteryPepperell, MACemetery4.9 mi
- North CemeteryLunenburg, MACemetery4.9 mi
- Pepperell CemeteryPepperell, MACemetery4.9 mi
- Saint Anthonys CemeteryBrookline, NHCemetery5.8 mi
Funeral homes near Old Burying Ground
- Anderson Funeral Homes Inc0.6 miFuneral home · Townsend · (978) 597-2692
- TJ Anderson Funeral Home0.6 miFuneral home · Townsend
- Brookline Chapel4.5 miFuneral home · Brookline
- McGaffigan Funeral Home5.2 miFuneral home · Pepperell · (978) 433-2100
- Sawyer Miller Masciarelli Funeral Home5.3 miFuneral home · Lunenburg
- Marchand Funeral Home5.7 miFuneral home · Pepperell · (978) 433-5788
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