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Latitude: 51.4552 / 51°27'18"N
Longitude: 0.5265 / 0°31'35"E
OS Eastings: 575631
OS Northings: 175938
OS Grid: TQ756759
Mapcode National: GBR PNX.MY7
Mapcode Global: VHJLG.2PPB
Plus Code: 9F32FG4G+3H
Entry Name: Comport and Baker Tombs 5 Yards to South of Church of St James
Listing Date: 14 November 1986
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1085769
English Heritage Legacy ID: 172854
ID on this website: 101085769
Location: St James's Church, Cooling, Medway, Kent, ME3
County: Medway
Civil Parish: Cooling
Traditional County: Kent
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent
Church of England Parish: Cliffe-at-Hoo St Helen
Church of England Diocese: Rochester
Tagged with: Tomb
COOLING CP
TO 77 NE
2/7
Comport and Baker tombs 5
yards to south of Church of
St. James.
GV II
Row of ten childrens' body blocks, with four footstones, and one headstone and
three larger body blocks. Early C19. Stone. Insribed to children of the
Comport and Baker families. Known locally as 'Pip's Graves' as they are generally
taken to have been the prototypes for the graves on the first page of Charles
Dickens' 'Great Expectations'.
Listing NGR: TQ7636776264
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