London’s Pocket Parks: Holly Road Garden of Rest, TW1

This is a small pocket park in Twickenham that was once a graveyard. Today, it’s a park, but it’s also the burial site of a controversial vicar.The site opened in 1782 as the burial ground for the local parish of St Mary the Virgin in Twickenham, but by 1835, it was already nearly full, so a larger burial ground in nearby Oak Lane was opened as an overflow site.
Holly Road officially closed as a burial site in 1868, although some family burials continued for a few decades. It remaine