Trafalgar Cemetery
Trafalgar Cemetery
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- Tommy C83 contributionsReally interestingBeautifully maintained and lots of information to read on various points of the cemetery. The setting is just outside of a main city gate and has ancient walls surrounding, although some headstones are ineligible now it's still very moving to walk around. Lots of flowers and trees add to the experience.Visited October 2023Travelled as a coupleWritten 14 October 2023
- KenPBATHBath, United Kingdom998 contributionsInteresting.Always find time for a visit here. This year several staff were working in the cemetery and it did look very clean and tidy not that it is bad anytime. Interesting reading the details on some of the stones which are very old and not all can be read. Most if not all have connections with the sea. Can be passed if walking from the centre towards the cable car.Visited December 2023Travelled as a coupleWritten 6 January 2024
- Zosia BWaterloo, Belgium1,466 contributionsSo much historyThis small cemetery is tucked just outside one of the city walls. Graves are well maintained but old- many of the stones are illegible but signage allows visitors to catch a glimpse of the local history. Well worth a quick walk about.Visited April 2024Travelled soloWritten 9 April 2024
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Malaga, Spain13,541 contributions
Oct 2021 • Couples
Historic cemetery located at end of main Street, before the base station to the Cable Car. A statue to Nelson is your guide to finding it- it is directly opposite. Some very old gravestones amd whilst it is generally very well. maintained, sadly most of the gravestones are now illegible.
Written 11 October 2021
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Zosia B
Waterloo, Belgium1,466 contributions
Apr 2024 • Solo
This small cemetery is tucked just outside one of the city walls. Graves are well maintained but old- many of the stones are illegible but signage allows visitors to catch a glimpse of the local history. Well worth a quick walk about.
Written 9 April 2024
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KenPBATH
Bath, UK998 contributions
Dec 2023 • Couples
Always find time for a visit here.
This year several staff were working in the cemetery and it did look very clean and tidy not that it is bad anytime.
Interesting reading the details on some of the stones which are very old and not all can be read. Most if not all have connections with the sea.
Can be passed if walking from the centre towards the cable car.
This year several staff were working in the cemetery and it did look very clean and tidy not that it is bad anytime.
Interesting reading the details on some of the stones which are very old and not all can be read. Most if not all have connections with the sea.
Can be passed if walking from the centre towards the cable car.
Written 6 January 2024
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bsandrs
Portsmouth, UK22,616 contributions
Feb 2019 • Couples
It will not surprise you to learn that with our Portsmouth/HMS Victory/ Nelson link, the top of our list to revisit in Gibraltar was the Trafalgar cemetery. We have visited many historic cemeteries over the years, to enjoy would be perhaps the wrong word, but the stories that unfold are many. This site is at the top of the Main Street, and far from the gift shops near Casemate Square. A really peaceful spot, beautifully maintained with a few seats interspersed with impressive planting. Whilst the burials relating to Trafalgar are the main highlight, there are many stories of British residents of The Rock. Perhaps a fifteen minute walk uphill from the Square, but a journey well worth taking.
Written 28 February 2019
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jc30
United Kingdom184 contributions
Jun 2019 • Couples
We had read about the cemetery before visiting Gibraltar and, as it was so close to our hotel, we decided to take a look.
It is quite small and thankfully very shady and the information boards dotted around were very interesting. We spent some time just wandering around, reading about its history and enjoying the peace and calm away from the busy town outside.
It is quite small and thankfully very shady and the information boards dotted around were very interesting. We spent some time just wandering around, reading about its history and enjoying the peace and calm away from the busy town outside.
Written 24 June 2019
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Cadiz_lover
London, UK31,498 contributions
Situated just outside the Southport Gate leading from Main Street is this well laid out small cemetery which is in a good state of repair thanks to the efforts of the local Heritage Trust. It was the place where burials took place between 1798 and 1814.
Several headstones tell tales of past sea battles as well as death from disease. Only two of the famous Battle of Trafalgar are commemorated here. One of the headstones - for Lieutenant William Forster - reads;
Late of His Majesty s ship Colossus
Died of the wounds
he received in the
Glorious Battle of Trafalgar
the 21st day of Octr 1805
Aged 20 years
Several headstones tell tales of past sea battles as well as death from disease. Only two of the famous Battle of Trafalgar are commemorated here. One of the headstones - for Lieutenant William Forster - reads;
Late of His Majesty s ship Colossus
Died of the wounds
he received in the
Glorious Battle of Trafalgar
the 21st day of Octr 1805
Aged 20 years
Written 18 December 2008
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Finlandia51
Worksop, UK34 contributions
Aug 2015 • Couples
Visitors must have this on their list of places to visit whilst visiting Gibraltar. You can spend an hour or so reading the headstone inscriptions building a picture in your own mind of the losses incurred during the battle of Trafalgar. Don't rush it.
Written 9 September 2015
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TheRestlessTraveller
Northop Hall, UK339 contributions
Sept 2020
If you are visiting this site then you will most likely have some interest in history whether it’s British, Spanish or French and whether you are a history buff or you take your lead from popular culture you won’t be able to avoid the sacrifice on all sides, a walk through the area provides.
Imperialist aspirations on all sides aside. The physical loss of lives for territory and the control of a strategic asset shows how little has changed in our world. Trafalgar like many other war cemetery is a continuous reminder of what lies at the end if inability to communicate or allows hunger for power to outstrip your regard for the lives of servicemen and women.
Imperialist aspirations on all sides aside. The physical loss of lives for territory and the control of a strategic asset shows how little has changed in our world. Trafalgar like many other war cemetery is a continuous reminder of what lies at the end if inability to communicate or allows hunger for power to outstrip your regard for the lives of servicemen and women.
Written 12 January 2021
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Vadim
Murmansk, Russia34,986 contributions
Jan 2020
The name of this small cemetery doesn`t correspond to the content. You might think that this is a memorial cemetery for those who died in the famous battle of Trafalgar, when the british fleet led by Nelson defeated the combined franco-spanish fleet and finally removed the question of the possibility of Napoleon's invasion of the british isles. The statue of Nelson at the entrance reinforces this view. However, nothing like that! Only two of those who died at Trafalgar are buried here. the rest of the graves belong to the dead participants of the battle of Algeciras in 1801, the sieges of Cadiz in 1810 and Malaga in 1812. And most of those buried did not die a heroic death at all, but became victims of three waves of yellow fever at the beginning of the XIX century. despite the dissimilarity, i remembered another cemetery that has not been buried since the xix century-Highgate in London. English graveyards are so melancholy that you immediately want to remember something from Keats, even though he himself seems to be buried in Rome...
Written 16 December 2020
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audrie m
london76 contributions
Feb 2020
Not far from the Main Street interesting old cemetery .Walk round and read the grave stones.Very moving .So peaceful and very well maintained.
Written 1 March 2020
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