To think it's not weird, creepy or disrespectful to go for a walk around a cemetery

Its not disrespectful at all.

I love walking in graveyards.

Death is part of life, so I don't think it's healthy to make graveyards no-go spaces unless you're burying a loved one, or visiting their grave.

Personally on my own I'd find it creepy, but I don't have a problem understanding why other people would find it quiet and peaceful. I don't think it's disrespectful to have a quiet walk there but I can also understand why others might think it is.

Oooops sorry Arnos Vale not in Clifton!

This is true. They were pleasure gardens for the living to visit dead.

I love cemeteries (as you may guess from my username) and visit them regularly, wherever I go. Fine for a walk and to look at the graves - it's nice to pay respects even to people you don't know - but not for a bike ride or a family picnic or a ball game (which you do sometimes see people doing).

The Friends of Wrexham Cemetery recently organised an Easter Egg Hunt in their cemetery which had to be cancelled after a media / local backlash: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-68694676

Arnos Vale in Bristol? - just driving past it as I read your comment!
I'm not the driver I hasten to add.
I love cemeteries, they are so interesting and thought provoking and I feel close to history and past generations of people and their lives. Opposite of disrespectful.

We walk to our DC's school and one of the paths is through a cemetery. The school is right next to it too. It is very interesting and very calm and lots of nature. There is a cholera grave in there plus a Quaker cemetery. I don't see the disrespect?

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What about Highgate then, they do yours around it!

I do it all the time. Your friend needs some creepy weird in her life.

I grew up near one that was created in the 1850s. It’s a fascinating place, full of graves old and new. It’s a really peaceful place to go for a walk.

Not creepy at all. I'd love to visit Highgate cemetery one day...

I always do this! So fascinating reading headstones, snippets of other people's stories frozen in time

I think they are important due to the lichen too which is good for the environment and wildlife and an indicator of pollution (again don't think I have invented this).

I find it creepy but that’s me, I totally understand that other people enjoy looking at old headstones and find it peaceful (my mum used to live going round an old cemetery.)

It is not disrespectful at all!

It's not weird . They are municipal areas , and either belong to the council , or the church .

In the 1800s when many were established they were designed so that people went for walks and even took carriage rides to show off in some, with the grandest graves at the top of the hill. They were treated very much like parks.

Not disrespectful or weird, no

I regularly walk in Sheffield General
Cemetary. It's a fabulous peaceful place and I like remembering my Dad. He isn't buried there, but we used to walk there together

It’s your friend that’s weird.

I don't know, but DS1's name came from a war memorial.

I've had the joy of living next to a few of 'the magnificent seven' in London. They're a haven for wildlife, a respite from the bustle of the city for humans. This time of year, they are bursting with daffodils, bluebells hawthorns and birds building nests, some of the headstones and crypts are works of art. It's such a peaceful place to go for a walk.

We have a beautiful old cemetery in Bristol, very old, and was abandoned at one stage. Now it is a vibrant place with a cafè and they also hold weddings there. My granddaughter wants to get wed there when she's older. I can easily spend a couple of hours there, especially as a keen photographer, looking at the old gravestones and taking photos of the more unusual ones

There's a lovely graveyard close to us with a stream, a pond, a wildflower meadow, tree carvings, benches and a bug hotel. One of ds's favourite activities to do with my mum and dad when he was little was visit there. Thr church encouraged children to play, explore and create respectfully.

Totally normal. And they are important local green spaces. Walking round them hopefully delays you ending up in the ground in one.