East Greenwich Pleasaunce

East Greenwich Pleasaunce is a public park in East Greenwich.

Plaque commemorating a mass burial site in East Greenwich Pleasaunce.
Credit: Paul Wilkinson

East Greenwich Pleasaunce was opened in 1857 and named after the former Royal Palace of Placentia or Palace of Pleasaunce).

The park was originally the graveyard of Greenwich Hospital. Due to construction of a railway tunnel as part of the London and Greenwich Railway, the remains of around 3000 sailors and officers, including those who fought in the Battle of Trafalgar and the Crimean War were removed from the Hospital site in 1875 and reinterred in the Pleasaunce.

In 1926 the Pleasaunce was sold to the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich, the Admiralty reserving rights of further burials. Railings around the tombstones were removed and part of the ground was landscaped as a park.

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