Dudley Park Cemetery is a cemetery in Dudley Park, a northern suburb of

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. The cemetery caters for various forms of burial and memorial in different areas. The ''Caroline Gardens'' area is based around the former Caroline Square in the original plan for the village of

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. The square was the site of a

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chapel established in 1845 and its burial ground was established in 1864. The cemetery was originally known as the Islington Cemetery. In 1922, a letter to the editor of a newspaper noted that the closest railway station to the Islington Methodist Cemetery was the Dudley Park railway station, not the

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was operated by the same

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board and considered to be filled within a few years. In 2013, the available space had been filled, and graves were being identified for redevelopment. Notable people buried at the cemetery include:Australian Dictionary of Biography
/ref> * William Henry Cann (1857–1942) Methodist minister *

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(1883–1974) musician * Arthur Erwin Vogt (1907–1987) Methodist minister and social worker * Reginald Arthur West (1883–1964) headmaster

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{{Cemeteries in South Australia Cemeteries in South Australia 1864 establishments in Australia