Media & Pop Culture
- The graveyard scenes in the music video for the song Back to Black, by singer Amy Winehouse were filmed at Abney Park Cemetery.
- The Steampunk band Abney Park takes its name from the cemetery.
- Abney Park is the setting for a murder in Elizabeth George's latest book, The Body of Death.
- Abney Park is used to depict some area of Hampstead Heath park in Waking The Dead season 2 "Thin Air" episodes.
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