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A path lined with old gravestones leads down through a short tunnel into St James’s Gardens, a sunken former quarry beside Liverpool Cathedral that served as the city’s main cemetery from 1829 to 1936, with nearly 58,000 burials. The chapel is by architect John Foster; the landscaping by John Shepherd, curator of the city’s Botanic Garden. Its grandest monument commemorates William Huskisson, the Liverpool MP killed in 1830 at the opening of the world’s first inter-city railway. Closed as a cemetery, it reopened as a free public park in the 1960s, open every day. 59 Rodney Street is a few minutes’ walk north.
Full name: St James's Gardens (formerly St James's Cemetery)
