Ascension Parish Burial Ground
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The Ascension Parish Burial Ground, formerly known as the burial ground for the parish of St Giles and St Peter's, is a cemetery off Huntingdon Road in Cambridge, England. Many notable University of Cambridge academics are buried there, including three Nobel Prize winners.
The former chapel of rest at the Ascension Parish Burial Ground
Grave of astronomer John Couch Adams and wife Eliza Adams
Grave of Sir Robert Stawell Ball and wife Lady Frances Elizabeth Ball.
Memorial to Sarah Clackson
John Couch Adams
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John Couch Adams was a British mathematician and astronomer. He was born in Laneast, near Launceston, Cornwall, and died in Cambridge.
Adams c. 1870
John Couch Adams
Neptune as seen by Voyager 2 in 1989
The great Leonid shower storm of 1833