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Cemetery Identification
Cemetery ID: WAL-08930
Cemetery Name: Townhill Cemetery
Section:
Cemetery Location
Country: Wales
City: Swansea
Street: High View and Long Ridge
Cemetery Details
Number of Burials: 790
Number of Photographs: 702
Cemetery Description:

Townhill Cemetery, High View and Long Ridge, Swansea, Wales, 790 burials total.

One of the first corporate actions of the early Swansea Jewish Community was the leasing of a plot of land to be used as a burial ground on 28th November, 1768. It was for 99 years on a plot of land 30 yards by 15 yards which was part of the Town Hill and exists there today. This is usually referred to as the old cemetery, Townhill.

Acknowledgements:

  1. Photographs by Alan Tobias.
  2. Database assembled by Alan Tobias.
  3. Data Transcription by Alan Tobias.
  4. Provision of communal records by the Swansea Hebrew Congregation.

In association with

Cemetery plan

See also the Swansea Jewish Community home page on Jewish Community & Records - United Kingdom (JCR-UK).

Data last updated: 04/07/2020

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