About Townsend Cemetery
Townsend Cemetery is a cemetery near Glen Head, Nassau County, New York. It was established in 1800. The nearest other listed cemetery is East Hillside Cemetery, about 0.2 mi to the east. The nearest funeral home we know of is Whitting Funeral Home in Glen Head, about 1.0 mi away. It is one of 92 cemeteries we list in Nassau County, and 89 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Nassau County dates to 1658. 7 of the 92 listings in Nassau County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Glen Head. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
40.83909, -73.61767
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
- East Hillside CemeteryGlen Head, NY · est. 1721Cemetery0.2 mi
- Carpenter CemeterySea Cliff, NY · est. 1855Cemetery1.4 mi
- Kirby-Mott CemeterySea Cliff, NY · est. 1794Cemetery1.8 mi
- Calvary African Methodist Episcopal Church CemeteryLocust Valley, NY · est. 1870Methodist cemetery1.8 mi
- Saint Pauls CemeteryGlen Cove, NYEpiscopal cemetery1.8 mi
- Townsend CemeteryGreenvale, NY · est. 1790Cemetery1.9 mi
- Saint Patrick CemeteryUpper Brookville, NY · est. 1871Christian cemetery2.0 mi
- Townsend CemeteryGlen Cove, NYCemetery2.0 mi
- Garvie CemeteryGlen Cove, NYCemetery2.0 mi
- Landing CemeteryGlen Cove, NYCemetery2.2 mi
Funeral homes near Townsend Cemetery
- Whitting Funeral Home1.0 miFuneral home · Glen Head · (516) 671-0807
- Mclaughlin Kramer Megiel Funeral Home1.6 miFuneral home · Glen Cove · (516) 676-8600
- Dodge Thomas Funeral Home1.8 miFuneral home · Glen Cove · (516) 676-1180
- Roslyn Heights Funeral Home3.9 miFuneral home · Roslyn Heights · (516) 621-4545
- North Shore Chapel & Graveside Services3.9 miFuneral home · Roslyn Heights · (516) 621-8832
- Fairchild Sons Funeral Chapel4.8 miFuneral chapel · Manhasset · (516) 627-2000
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