St. John's Cemetery

Noisy well maintained cemetery

It's a nice walled historic cemetery with an unlocked gate. Noisy from the adjoining main road but suspiciously well cared for with lots of flower on hundred year old graves. Worth a stop but not wort...

Overgrown, muddy, and hard to see anything.

I visited to learn a bit more about the European history of the area over Easter 2022. The cemetery was overgrown (thigh-high grass) and muddy due to all the rain at the end of summer. I tried walking...

Inaccessible

What a pity that just yesterday I took three others to view this historic cemetery. I was aware that a group "Friends of St. John's" or similar title had taken on role of mowing grass and tending to g...

So many stories

A fascinating glimpse into the first people who settled in Parramatta from the earliest ships to arrive. Past Times Tours did a wonderful job of making stories come alive

A walled olde world cemetery, very intriguing. Some grave stones are so old they are illegible

You can see Westfield from here, it’s on O’Connor Street, this is so steeped in history. The oldest stone I could read was 1819, wow, that’s two hundred years ago!! The sayings are wonderful, here l...